The author suffers from numerous false assumptions about reality, foremost of which is that the “elites” know better than the rest of us how to arrange our affairs and make our decisions.
It is clear that he considers himself “one of the elite”.
About the authorNot only does the elitist bent appear in the writing, but it is also in the background. All a person like this would know is the propaganda and the associated buzzwords, e.g. “angry white men” et al.
Simon Radford is a Provost’s Fellow at the University of Southern California, a political consultant, and contributes regularly on politics to a variety of magazines and newspapers, both in the US and UK.