Backlash Quote by Kellyanne Conway

It's very un-American to say nice things about elites. Elites are often terrible. It's not like we've ever had a perfect set of benevolent…

— Franklin Foer

The problems of elites is an old one for which Americans have found no solid answer.

— William Pfaff

Elites are once again invoking Reagan, dropping their Gs and saying things in a folksy sort of way thats meant to capture the hearts…

— Eugene Jarecki

Sometime in the eighties, Americans had a new set of 'traditional values' installed. ... the poor and the middle class were shaken down, and…

— Barbara Ehrenreich

“THESE MANIFESTATIONS OF BACKLASH—against family breakup, illegitimacy, welfare, crime, riots, black activists, anti-war demonstrators, long-haired hippies, government programs that favored minorities, elitists, liberals generally—exposed…

— James T. Patterson

The new elites have no allegiances to nation states and don't care about the damage they do to workers, the environment, or the rest…

— Henry Giroux

The '60s were a disaster in terms of social policy. The elites put in place a whole set of reforms which I think fundamentally…

— Charles Murray

Elites are inevitable in politics. That is how politics is going to work. The question is, are your elites responsible, public-spirited? Do they think…

— David Frum

Americans shocked me by their behavior and their narrow-mindedness.

— Mick Jagger

The backlash against gains of African Americans in the Reconstruction Era was swift and severe.

— Michelle Alexander

The people are rejecting so-called free trade and globalization that the elites presented as a positive thing.

— Marine Le Pen

Americans have known about mounting inequality and king-sized Wall Street bonuses for years. But we also had an entire genre of journalism dedicated to…

— Thomas Frank