Ultimately this division clerisy and their clients versus yeomanry will decide the election.

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The clerisy labors largely in offices and has no contact with actual production.

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To understand the possible implications of the new power arrangement, it is critical to understand the nature of the new clerisy.

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They are primarily small property owners who lack the girth and connections of the clerisy but resist joining the government-dependent poor .

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In the next few months, business lobbyists will wear out their knee pads trying to appease the increasingly all powerful regulatory clerisy.

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The nature of their work also differentiates the clerisy from the yeomanry.

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They tend to live in the suburbs, a geography much detested by many leaders of the clerisy and, likely, the president himself.

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Essentially, the clerisy has become a new, mass privileged class who live a safer, more secure life compared to those trapped in the harsher, less cosseted private economy.

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Most distinctive about the clerisy is their unanimity of views.

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This group, which I call the new clerisy, is based largely in academia and the federal bureaucracy, whose numbers and distinct privileges have grown throughout the past half century.

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The yeomanry diverge from the clerisy in other ways.

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