The Ruling Class Has Evolved

From Ruling Class to Oligarchy

By Angelo Codevilla

For four decades beginning in the mid-1960s, a class of rulers grew in America. They became ever more uniform socially and intellectually, ever more opposed to the rest of Americans, and ever more powerful. This happened as government took upon itself the tasks of eliminating poverty and harmonizing the races, and as it controlled ever greater shares of the national income. 

Increasingly, their powers were based on claims of expertise coming from the universities

In 2010 Professor Codevilla published a predecessor discussion to the article linked above in which he described an America divided into Ruling Class vs. Country Class entitled America’s Ruling Class — And the Perils of Revolution.  It is well worth the time to read it.