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It isn't actually restricted to the Right, although that has been the most current and obvious manifestation of the broad discontent that is now gripping the country. What is actually turning away is America itself, and what it is turning away from is what has become a ruling class within the eastern urban areas that has systematically worked against America. Mr. Wehner is not America. He was once, I suppose, before the corruption of power set in. But he isn't now.

We have a ruling class that tells us from both sides of the aisle that America is in need of transformation, unanimously to the benefit of big government, unanimously to advance the role government plays in the lives of the citizens, unanimously to control, to regulate, to demand obedience. It is that from which America, not the Right, is turning.

That's very inconvenient and very threatening to the people who figure they've learned how to game the system. A degree from the Columbia School of Journalism, et al, and a cushy job with an alphabet network, and you're set for life. A seat in Congress, a K Street consultancy, a job with a large NGO, a place at the trough. The notion that your in group is somehow entitled to direct the affairs of the nation. The idea that anything up to and including sexual perversion is an integral part of a "new" country that rejects such antiquarian notions as conventional morality. The systemic exploitation of office for personal and family financial gain. The corruption of celebrity that is so very similar to the corruption of power. These are the things from which America is turning away.

Wehner's problem is that fish don't notice the water. This isn't a partisan matter, although it can easily be framed that way by those intent on marginalizing the outrage. Win or lose the election, the cultural war will continue, and it is already at the brink of violence.

Very true. The diseased elites of our credentialed society are of the notion that their padded resumes allow them the privilege of lording over us as they systematically deprive us of our liberties. And that we - good untutored sheep that we are - will somehow willingly surrender them without a squabble.

But the animals out in the barnyard are restive and making noises, and farmer Wehner doesn't like the sound of it.