Let’s have it out. I’m sick of listening to people talk past each other because they’re using wildly different definitions of “establishment.” I’m sick of everyone having their own personal definition which doesn’t ever match anyone else’s. So, let’s settle this: Does the Establishment exist?

Or, perhaps, is there any definition of “Establishment” that’s common enough to be meaningful? Jay Nordlinger said in a recent podcast that it doesn’t exist, and that when he was young it referred to the Rockefeller Republicans, which I’m given to understand are an extinct species much like the woolly mammoth. People are always throwing that word around, though. With all due deference to Mr. Nordlinger, can we at least say that any definition has to be relevant to this election? You may cite history, but any historical examples of same must be directly relevant to circumstances of today.