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Opinion | The Elites Had It Coming

At the Republican convention in July, JD Vance described the ruination visited on his working-class town in Ohio by NAFTA and trade with China, both of which he blamed at least in part on Mr. Biden, and also the human toll taken by the Iraq War, which he also contrived to blame on Mr. Biden. Today Mr. Vance is the vice president-elect, and what I hope you will understand, what I want you to mull over and take to heart and remember for the rest of your life, is that he got there by mimicking the language that Americans used to associate with labor, with liberals, with Democrats.

By comparison, here is Barack Obama in 2016, describing to Bloomberg Businessweek his affinity for the private sector: “Just to bring things full circle about innovation — the conversations I have with Silicon Valley and with venture capital pull together my interests in science and organization in a way I find really satisfying.”

I hope Mr. Obama finds his silicon satisfaction. I hope the men of capital whose banks he bailed out during the financial crisis show a little gratitude and build him the biggest, most expensive, most innovative presidential library of them all. But his party is in ruins today, without a leader and without a purpose.

It would have been nice if the Democrats could have triangulated their way into the hearts of enough educated and affluent suburbanites to make up for the working class voters they’ve lost over the years, but somehow that strategy rarely works out. They could have gone from boasting about Dick Cheney’s endorsement to becoming a version of Mr. Cheney themselves, and it still wouldn’t have been enough. A party of the left that identifies with people like Mr. Cheney is a contradiction in terms, a walking corpse.

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Can anything reverse it? Only a resolute determination by the Democratic Party to rededicate itself to the majoritarian vision of old: a Great Society of broad, inclusive prosperity. This means universal health care and a higher minimum wage. It means robust financial regulation and antitrust enforcement. It means unions and a welfare state and higher taxes on billionaires, even the cool ones. It means, above all, liberalism as a social movement, as a coming-together of ordinary people — not a series of top-down reforms by well-meaning professionals.

That seems a long way away today. But the alternative is — what? To blame the voters? To scold the world for failing to see how noble we are? No. It will take the opposite sentiment — solidarity — to turn the world right-side up again.

 

I find it fascinating that a movement whose best-known supporter is the world's richest man thinks the other side contains the "elites." Salt of the earth, that Peter Thiel is.

 

Millionaire user car dealer and Sen.-Elect Bernie Moreno (R-Ohio), said he was "sick of being treated as a second-class citizen." This ludicrous fantasy translates as "I can't stand it that many people disagree with and dislike me." This is politics, dude. If I think you suck, I can say so. But that's MAGA in a nutshell. Opposition is a personal insult, That's what the feeling of being looked upon really is.How dare those people tell me I'm wrong. They must hate me. No, just think you're wrong.

 

Seriously. Dems condescend to blue collar voters? The most condescending pr*cks all wear the red hat.

 

It's not that they don't care about the Senator, or the Senate. It's that they don't know or understand how the government works, or the importance of consistent voting if you want to have/retain power. It's ignorance. All kinds of it truly was the greatest factor in this election. We are stupid.

 

Hannity invited Biden to be on his show for a full hour.

Clay Trumpist and Buck had a standing invitation out to Biden all year.

Yeah, you're going to get tough, aggressive questioning from them that they won't do to Trump. So act like an educated adult, come armed with the facts and TAKE THEM ON. Otherwise, enjoy being irrelevant.

 

And we will have none, particularly with Trump as President.

 

https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/heres-why-a-second-death-star-wont-be-that-bad

 

I agree. And that’s one reason why Dems are losing.

 

I don't believe Newsom would duck them. Not all, anyway.

 

They elected a man whose personal brand for decades is “I am one of the elites” to show they understand the working man!

 

You want to do it right?
Have it both ways.
Have both parties on Maher…..Stewart…..60 Minutes……Hannity……Stern.
None of the mindless yuk-yuk stuff. Fallon isn’t smart enough to dump water out of a bucket.