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The provided text, "America’s Cultural Reversion," argues that recent rapid cultural shifts, driven by a self-anointed elite, have created a whiplash effect leading to a backlash from "the eighty percent" of America. This coalition of "strange bedfellows" is united not by shared ideology but by shared disgust with the pace and direction of cultural change, viewing it as a "hostile takeover" rather than organic absorption. While this "mutiny" has wrested control from the elite, the author cautions that sustaining this cultural "reversion" requires more than just resistance; it demands the slow, unglamorous work of building new institutions and establishing a new "cultural default" to prevent the old guard from regaining power. The essay concludes that the long-term success of this shift depends on the coalition's ability to move beyond merely opposing and instead focus on creating and consolidating their gains.
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