Now I understand why @Yascha_Mounk believes the populist right is a greater threat to free speech than the woke left. It's because his narrative of the last 50 years (which I assume represents the elite conventional wisdom) is, with all due respect, nuts. persuasion.community/p/the-purpose-…
Yes, the decline of institutions is the big story of our era — but are Princeton and Brookings really the institutions whose decline has hurt Americans most? Not the Protestant Mainline and civic groups, but the Council on Foreign Relations? 
Did universities and the mainstream media lose legitimacy — so much that Donald Trump was elected president — because they weren't feminist, anti-racist, and pro-gay **enough**?
The truth is that Mounk and his friends in elite institutions produced bad outcomes when they were in power, and that's why people stopped trusting them. I see no trace of self-reflection here that they made any mistakes at all—which, looking at some of these names, is odd!
Mounk blames "minoritarian" "malcontents" in the conservative movement, and now Trumpists, for elite institutions losing legitimacy. Personally I would advise him to consider whether maybe elites contributed to their own decline. Admitting a single error would be a good start.
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