Quigley called his book that, but it concealed very deep divisions on very fundamental ideas.
So, what kind of so called establishment was it, really?
Smoke and mirrors.
Wilson had given those European Imperialist bastards an anti imperialist ultimatum, in and after WWI.
We had only joined WWI to screw Europe, and only entered when Russia turned communist, which appealed to our Age of the Democratic Revolution heritage, of fomenting proletarian revolutions whenever possible.
Here was Wilson's statement, on hearing of the Russian Bolsheviki Revolution, resulting in our entering the war:
Wilson, 1917:
"Does not every American feel that assurance has been added to our hope for the future peace of the world by the wonderful and heartening things that have been happening within the last few weeks in Russia? Russia was known by those who knew it best to have been always in fact democratic at heart, in all the vital habits of her thought, in all the imtimate relationships of her people that spoke their natural instinct, their habitual attitude towards life. The autocracy that crowned the summit of her political structure, long as it had stood and terrible as was the reality of its power, was not in fact Russian in origin, character, or purpose; and now it has been shaken off and the great, generous Russian people have been added in all their naive majesty and might to the forces that are fighting for freedom in the world, for justice, and for peace. Here is a fit partner for a league of honor."
FDR then rammed it up their imperialist asses, during and after WWII.
"...The citizens of the United States had not joined in the Second World War to prop up a system of imperial domination against which they had been the first people to revolt...." Sir Michael Howard
If you want to call that an establishment, knock yourself out.
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