The 2008-2020s protest wave managed elite-mass relations rather than shifting them

Evidence

The long decade of protest that started after the 2008 credit crash can then be recast less as a successful assault on the Washington citadel from below than as a mutation in the methods of managing elite-mass relations. — Anton Jäger, Hyperpolitics, 25

Categorization

• XREF: recasts the protest wave against its self-image; connects to reader’s hyperpolitics saturation thesis. — connects to: Mass protest can move US majorities toward anti-racist structural politics.; Global protest movements of 2011 coordinated through shared tactics against the 1 percent; Global movements claiming to speak for the people are winning power across democracies — Arthur Borriello and Anton Jäger, The Populist Moment: The Left After the…, 41 (+3 more)