While Michels News Today

The situation comes as the Democratic party faces an uphill battle in the 2022 midterm elections.

Robert Michelss seminal treatise Political Parties: A Sociological Study of the Oligarchical Tendencies of Modern Democracy (1911) offers an important theoretical exposition of the core belief that underlies populist politics: namely, that the elites (inevitably) capture democracy from the common people. Michelss disillusionment with the elitist betrayal of democracy led the sociologist to embrace Mussolinis fascism, a biographical note that seems to validate contemporary fears about populisms...