Why, Democrats have been asking, do so many poor white people vote for a Republican Party that doesn¡¯t care about or do anything for them? The most common reply is: Democrats are snobby coastal elites who talk down to them. Classic example, courtesy of Obama: ¡°They [voters in the Rust Belt] get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren¡¯t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.¡±
Democrats know their arrogance pisses off the working-class whites they need to win national elections. Yet they persist.
Every day sees some Ivy-educated columnist opining that voting for Trump means you¡¯re a Klansman and another DNC-fed talking head pontificating about the masklessness at the president¡¯s rallies with the bloated tone of a Roman tribune announcing stunning news that no one had ever heard before.
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