Salena Zito offers a forecast:
Today we are in the midst of a cultural U-turn away from a Hamiltonian meritocratic-elitist, centralized-power society to a more Jeffersonian Main Street focus, with state and local governments as the primary powerbrokers.
I don’t believe that local government is less elitist; it’s just that the quality of municipal managers and bureaucrats (and their apologists) is so low that they don’t seem so elite.
Yet, if it should be true that even local government becomes more Jeffersonian, then so many of the middle aged (and older) bureaucrats and hangers-on who’ve made a such a mess will remain just long enough to see the rejection of their shabby policies and careers.
Via Our new Jeffersonian era – Pittsburgh Tribune-Review. (Hat tip to Instapundit for the link, and following his view that ‘elite’ isn’t really that elite.)