And yet the Thaksinite governments were probably no more corrupt than their predecessors were.Crucially,the Shinawatras did much to transform the liver of some of the country's wore off.They built country roads,boosted education and provided health care for the poor. The old elites resented this,not least because they liked to think of the king traditionally atop an ordered hierarchy with deferential peasants at the bottom grateful for royal charity.Without putting it in so many words, Mr Thaksin implicitly challenged that dispensation, and a majority of Thais approved. Bot soon after he our his loyalists were back in office,the political stand-offs and the street violence would resume.