OP-ED: A photograph taken at an elite conference in Sun Valley is going viral this week, and it may be the most perfect portrait of America’s new ruling class ever captured.
There was Bari Weiss, the newly installed queen of safe heterodoxy — in a lab coat that screams “Women in STEM” — strolling through billionaire summer camp alongside Sheryl Sandberg, the patron saint of corporate feminism.
Tucked under Sandberg’s arm was a copy of Democratic Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman’s book, Unfettered.
Uniparty, anyone?
The new uniparty is especially slippery because it claims to tolerate political disagreement — but only when that disagreement does not threaten the money, power or access of its members.
Its members spar over pronouns, whether Trump goes too far when he attacks the media, or whether the new ballroom is a good idea. They declare themselves politically homeless and pretend to be the anti-establishment. But at the end of the day, they gather at the same invitation-only conferences, occupy the same boardrooms, circle through the same media outlets, and vote in the same direction.
The Sun Valley photograph is so perfect because it captures the establishment’s response to populism. It didn’t retreat in horror. It tamed and re-packaged the revolt.
Everyone gets to feel rebellious. No one important has to give anything up.
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