In all the "Bernie would have won/No he wouldn't" posts I've read...........

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201. Liberals ARE the establishment.........

As are certain segments of the Republican Party. The establishment is Reaganism. That redefinition of the establishment in the 1980s that was accepted by Democrats in the 1990s has now become the entrenched mindset that most of the political class believes. The problem is that Reaganism isn't working and people are waking up to that fact, even if they can't define it in those terms.

My point is that there is no longer a general consensus about the efficacy of that establishment on either the left OR the right, As I said, their prescriptions differ as do their definitions of the problems, but both the left and the right ends of the spectrum of American politics are waking up to the fact that establishment politics are NOT working for the majority. The right, as usual, is ahead in the defining of the anti-establishment message because it's easier to stir up hatred AGAINST a perceived "other" than it is to articulate an inclusive message based on class, rather than color, ethnicity, immigration status or sexual orientation. This has led to polarization and was the reason that Trump won and Bernie was WAY more successful than he would have been even in 2008. It takes a little while for disillusionment to set in.

I still don't see how I redefined any terms. Care to enlighten? Maybe I can be clearer if I know why you think I did this.