I think what has drifted up from the USA is a willingness for people to turn their back on the elites, be they intellectual, political, or whatnot.
Where once we expected the mass of people to defer to the richer and better educated, now they have shed their shame and proudly claim the right to express their opinion as they truly feel it, rather than trying to suss out the “right” attitude and pretend to adopt it.
The trouble with giving people freedom to be themselves is that freedom goes in every direction, including the directions I don’t like.
