William K. Dark — Douthat’S Mendacious Meritocracy Myth

The funeral services for President George HW Bush triggered Ross Douthat’s nostalgia for the “aristocratic virtues of the sometime WASP establishment, in addition to a disappointment amongst the meritocracy that has risen inwards its place.” This column ignores his nostalgia in addition to alleged virtues in addition to discusses briefly his bizarre supposition that a “meritocracy” runs America. Given the 2008 Great Financial Crisis (GFC) in addition to President Trump, I idea that the meritocracy fantasy was dead. We are far closer to anti-meritocracy (a kakistocracy).

 The Blue Planet of conservatism is traditionalism, which inwards the extreme mythologizes the supposed "gold age" of the by in addition to yearns for recapturing it gist through reactionary politics.

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Douthat’s Mendacious Meritocracy Myth
William K. Black | Associate Professor of Economics in addition to Law, UMKC