6/ "The non-suburban electorate will decide the system has failed and start looking for a strongman to vote for—someone willing to assure them that the smug bureaucrats, tricky lawyers, overpaid bond salesmen, and postmodernist professors will no longer be calling the shots..."

7/ "One thing that is very likely to happen is that the gains made in the past 40 years by black and brown Americans, and by homosexuals, will be wiped out. Jocular contempt for women will come back into fashion..."

8/ "All the resentment, which badly educated Americans feel about having their manners dictated to them by college graduates, will find an outlet." Rorty thus described an electoral shift that would lead to the rise of a Trump-like strongman.

9/ Ultimately, Rorty wrote, the so-called strongman would be powerless to do anything but “worsen economic conditions,” and “quickly make his peace with the international superrich.”

10/ The corollary is hopes of blue-collar workers for genuine reversal of inequality will prove fleeting. America will remain vulnerable to serious socio-political instability in the future.