Backlash Versus White Flight

From my POV, the whole Internet counterculture was powered by a serious loss in the credibility of "mainstream" institutions after 9/11 and the subsequent wars and the bank bailouts and financial crisis of 2008. The 2016 election put the cherry on top. Mainstream media figures were exposed as being in direct collusion with the Clinton campaign. At the same time, culture wars issues flare up left and right on social media. It seems like there's an ongoing polarization of the public, not only in the United States but throughout the western world, and perhaps the "silent majority" is getting ready to tell the screechy minority to STFU.

I think rather than a physical confrontation between the lefty establishment and "the new right" or the populists, or whatever they're called, the old establishment institutions will one by one face "white flight" (really yeomanry flight).