Elite liberal discourse ignored primal emotions and became insulated.

Evidence

For decades, the nice and the good have been talking to each other, chitchat in every forum going, ignoring what stews beneath: envy, anger, lust. On both sides of the ocean, the bien-pensants put their fingers in their ears and smiled and bowed at one another, like nodding dogs or painted puppets. — Hilary Mantel, A Memoir of My Former Self- A Life in…, 944

Categorization

• SEED: An essay angle: ‘the caged roaring at the gates’ — how the liberal failure to acknowledge primal dread throve beneath polite consensus.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Hilary Mantel, A Memoir of My Former Self- A Life in…, 944