"Trump's campaign has used a particular vision of the nation that emphasizes the superiority of the American people, the moral corruption of elites, and dire threats posed by immigrants and ethnic, racial, and religious minorities," they wrote.
Essentially, you can't have an elite-led moral panic without lots of media support: If too many journalists object, the critical mass needed to spur uncritical fear responses simply can't be generated.
Russia's political, religious and cultural elite faced huge moral pressure to participate.
So much for the moral level of the intellectual elite!" The threat that hangs in the air is psychiatric punishment.
They put their faith in a rational elite and a moral avant-garde that would champion justice, virtue and equality by leading social and political revolutions.
AFTER 125 Harvard students were accused of cheating last month on the final exam of a course titled "Introduction to Congress," there was predictable hand-wringing over the declining moral standards of the academic elite.
The reason for coming here was simple: Britain had outlawed slavery 12 years earlier, and as the source of US civilisation, Douglass and his fellow abolitionists hoped that Britain could use its "moral force" over the American elite.
In the absence of such debate we end up in an ideological and moral vacuum, which frees the Elite from any moral and ethical value-system.
Finalists: "The Privileges," by Jonathan Dee (Random House), a contemporary, wide ranging tale about an elite Manhattan family, moral bankruptcy and the long reach of wealth; and "The Surrendered," by Chang-Rae Lee (Riverhead Books), a haunting and often heartbreaking epic whose characters explore the deep reverberations of love, devotion and war.
