It is not as brutally ending as France and Louis XVI experienced during the French Revolution, but it is just as close to riding someone out of town on a rail as possible. And that is what is going to happen to all those faceless establishment employees walking the halls of our government buildings, drawing a fine salary and looking down the noses at the masses.
At a rally in Florida during his campaign, Trump issued a warning to “those who control the levers of power in Washington”. He told people in the audience that the days of the Washington establishment would soon be over.
He said: “Our campaign represents a true existential threat like they haven’t seen before.”
Gordon Adams, a former senior White House official, spoke with me after the election about the way that members of the Washington establishment – himself included – got things wrong. They were blinded by their own assumptions about the country and their role in it, he said.
“The capacity of the media and the chattering class to mystify itself is unlimited,” he told me.
He described the way that Washington insiders underestimated the rage that people felt in other parts of the country. Now, Mr Adams said, the elite is trying to come to terms with reality: “They’re shaken to the core.”
The free ride is over my fellow Americans, time to get out there and work for a living like half the population of the country does every day. I do not feel sorry for them, they just have to do what all the rest of us have done, write a resume and look for a new position.
What do you think?