# Anti-Elitism

> Anti-Elitism is mapped as the people named: it constructs a morally charged people against an elite, outsider, or betrayer.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Stable ID | `node:kiduna:political-change:populism-nationalism:anti-elitism` |
| Family | Populism & Nationalism |
| Domain | Ideology |
| Kind | formation |
| Archetypal function | The People Named |
| Epistemic status | synthesis; supported |

## Concrete anchor

Anti-Elitism belongs to the **Populism & Nationalism** family. It is treated as a specific political object, role, institution, tactic, event, ideology, or mechanism before any symbolic transfer is made.

## What it does

Anti-Elitism constructs a morally charged people against an elite, outsider, or betrayer, changing who can act, what becomes visible, and which costs are distributed to others.

## Who gains and who loses power

The mechanism can increase the capacity of actors able to use Anti-Elitism, while shifting cost, delay, risk, exclusion, or dependence toward actors with less authority, information, organization, money, or safe access. The distribution is conditional, not an essence of the node.

## Archetypal function

**The People Named.** Anti-Elitism is mapped as the people named: it constructs a morally charged people against an elite, outsider, or betrayer.

## Gift

can mobilize excluded constituencies and challenge unaccountable elites; through Anti-Elitism, that capacity becomes available for deliberate use.

## Wound / Shadow

turns plural societies into one authentic people and scapegoated enemies; Anti-Elitism can then reproduce the very arrangement it claims to change.

## Conditions

- scale and jurisdiction are explicit
- affected people and absent stakeholders are named
- time horizon and countermoves are considered

## Strategic meaning

Use Anti-Elitism to identify the operative target, resource, dependency, decision forum, and likely countermove. Ask what would make the mechanism stronger, weaker, more legitimate, or less necessary.

## Divinatory meaning

The People Named enters through Anti-Elitism. Read for the capacity seeking expression, the cost displaced from view, and the relationship that changes if the frame moves.

**Question:** What changes when Anti-Elitism becomes the unit of analysis rather than background?

## Game function

**leverage.** Reveal one hidden dependency connected to Anti-Elitism; another player names a countermove. Initiative 1.

## Relationships

- **counteracts — Strongman Politics:** Strongman Politics counteracts Anti-Elitism by changing authority, participation, resources, information, legitimacy, timing, or the cost of cooperation. _(synthesis; supported)_
- **amplifies — Drain the Swamp:** Anti-Elitism amplifies Drain the Swamp by changing authority, participation, resources, information, legitimacy, timing, or the cost of cooperation. _(synthesis; supported)_
- **mobilizes — Sovereign Citizen Movement:** Sovereign Citizen Movement mobilizes Anti-Elitism by changing authority, participation, resources, information, legitimacy, timing, or the cost of cooperation. _(interpretive; tentative)_
- **enables — Preventive Detention:** Anti-Elitism enables Preventive Detention by changing authority, participation, resources, information, legitimacy, timing, or the cost of cooperation. _(interpretive; tentative)_

## Countermaps and polarity prompts

- Read Anti-Elitism from the viewpoint of the actor who bears its cost.
- Reverse cause and symptom: what if Anti-Elitism is an effect of the system it appears to drive?
- Change the clock: what looks different over a day, an election cycle, a generation, and a century?
- Ask when the Gift becomes the Wound through scale, secrecy, intensity, latency, or unequal reciprocity.

## Epistemic and Sentinel note

Claim layers: synthesis, interpretive, symbolic_divinatory. Scope, jurisdiction, period, and source perspective may change the claim.
No node-specific Sentinel factors were recorded; ordinary source, audience, and context checks still apply.

## Visual direction

A text-free enamel expression of Anti-Elitism: one dominant mechanism, one counterforce, raised warm-metal linework, midnight field, restrained civic red, teal, ivory, and amber. No party logo, national flag, sacred symbol, or recognizable person.

## Research / provenance

- [Introduction to Political Science](https://openstax.org/details/books/introduction-political-science) — OpenStax, 2022. Comparative institutions, political behavior, and public policy foundations.
- [2024 Republican Party Platform](https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/2024-republican-party-platform) — Republican National Committee, 2024. Party self-description and program; not an external assessment.
- [Donald J. Trump Platform](https://www.donaldjtrump.com/platform) — Donald J. Trump campaign, 2024. Campaign self-description and policy claims; claims require independent verification.
- [President Donald J. Trump](https://www.whitehouse.gov/administration/donald-j-trump/) — White House, 2026. Official biography and administration self-description; evaluative claims are attributed to the administration.
- [Fascism](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/fascism-1) — United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, 2019. Historically bounded definition and features; avoid use as a generic insult.

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Engine Output version 1.0.0; generated 2026-08-24T00:00:00Z. Sentinel annotations are stored separately in `sentinel/handoffs.json`.
