Experts’ specialized jargon makes them vulnerable to being cast as a cabal.

Evidence

This is the delegitimation of knowledge and the delegitimation of parties—and Donald Trump is only its most powerful agent. At every turn, the new conspiracism assaults the integrity and independence of knowledge-producing institutions. Perhaps because experts deal in specialized terms that often defy general understanding, they are politically vulnerable: they can be cast as a cabal. — Russell Muirhead and Nancy L. Rosenblum, A Lot of People Are Saying, 377

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Populism assumes a homogeneous people betrayed by an elite cabal. — Russell Muirhead and Nancy L. Rosenblum, A Lot of People Are Saying: The New…, 152