Our university-run country isn’t working. It’s held together by Green Ideology ( Gaia , the Mother of Creation), pro-abortion feminism , and elite entitlement. Its core weakness: the national majority doesn’t embrace an elite record of failure.  Complacent elite supporters should reflect on Andrew Abbott’s (pen name) discussion of Ruy Teixeira’s current thinking. Along with co-author John Judis, Teixeira in 2002 wrote the seminal politics book The Emerging Democratic Majority , which asserted that by appealing to young and minority voters, Democrats could make Republicans obsolete in a few decades. After Obama won, that projection simplified to “demographics are destiny.”  “Destiny” then evolved into a “coalition of the ascendant,” reflecting the party’s leadership elite including their “moral judgment” that Democrats are morally righteous. And superiority brought with it disdain for those living below, including the nonwhite working-class, particularly Hispanics.  Teix...