If you believe that the big divide in politics today is no longer between left and right, but between a post-ideological establishment on the one hand and a "fringe" grown much too large to be labelled as such on the other, then this week's referendum result in the Netherlands offers a perfect illustration.
Across the ideological spectrum, establishment political parties in France are deeply concerned about the European elections, confronting what they view as the potential for another round of record low turnout combined with swelling support for populism.
Mr. Cruz won his Senate seat by defeating one of the most powerful Republicans in Texas, Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst, a victory that exposed the ideological split between moderate establishment Republicans and the younger, more aggressive and conservative movement of grass-roots activists and Tea Party supporters.
Ryan did not create the movement, but he did more than any other sitting politician in Washington to welcome it into the Republican fold, to insist that it shared with the G.O.P. establishment an ideological core: that its fury was just atmosphere, and that at its essence was the same stringent set of beliefs about small government and low taxes that Ryan himself had grown powerful professing.
Relying on a wealth of information gleaned from Twitter and other social media, prosecutors said Choudhury had broken terrorism laws because he had sought to intervene violently in the country's internal affairs for an ideological cause - the establishment of an Islamic state.
This pact represents the pivotal ideological moment -- the establishment of an alliance between ultra-orthodox dogma and a call to arms.
Politically, Palin and Trump have much in common in their anti-establishment instincts, ideological fluidity and eagerness to use vitriol as their most potent weapon against adversaries.
"The establishment of an ideological Islamic state requires the Earth," he said.
He belongs to the ideological "outriders" of the new establishment, in a tradition stretching back to Hayek in the 1940s.
Throughout the planning of the conservatorship over the last 10 days, Mr. Paulson made clear he did not want that ideological struggle to influence the establishment of the conservatorship, Treasury officials said.
Gramsci saw that differentiated forms of education based on arbitrary tests of rote-learned knowledge was an essential tool in the establishment of the ideological hegemony of rulers in a class-based society.
