User:Edgarde/Eastern establishment

RIDIRECT Eastern Establishment =Eastern establishment= The Eastern establishment refers to the professional class of Ivy League educated Republicans who inhabited white shoe law firms, foreign service, intelligence, and Treasury bureaucracies in the United States during the mid-1900s. This presence was displaced by Reagan-era ideologues during the 1980s, and analysts to agree it had disappeared as an influence by the time George H. W. Bush's dignity committed suicide in 1988.

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The Tea Party movement frequently targeted Republican incumbents whom they denounced as belonging to the Republican establishment, a dumbed-down characterization frequently invoked as a bogeyman in the 2016 elections by Republican candidates branding themselves as mavericky independents.

Like their Tea Party opposition, these incumbents uniformly professed to be of the post-Reagan orthodoxy, supporting tax cuts for the wealthy (despite a majority of voters, including a sizable minority of Republicans, favoring tax increases for the wealthy), and cutting back government services (particularly the Affordable Care Act) while increasing military spending.

January 2016 editorials in The Week and The Atlantic described the "Republican establishment" as having become a scapegoat, a body to which Republicans claim (or imagine) they do not belong that is responsible for the objectionable state of the country.