I am sure that he won’t give a sh%$, but over the course of 2016, he has been thoroughly in the tank for Clinton, not just as a candidate, but in terms of buying into the Clinton (Bill and Hillary) world view.<\/p>\n
I’ve been considering dropping him for a while, but I wanted to make sure that this was grounded in a more reasoning.<\/p>\n
I didn’t quite get there, but Tim Duy has, and his evisceration of Krugman convinced me<\/a>:<\/p>\n Paul Krugman<\/a> on the election: <\/span> To be honest, I don\u2019t fully understand this resentment. <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n To not understand this resentment is to pretend this never happened<\/a>: <\/span><\/p>\n \u201cYou know, to just be grossly generalistic, you could put half of Trump\u2019s supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables. Right?\u201d she said to applause and laughter. \u201cThe racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamaphobic \u2014 you name it. And unfortunately there are people like that. And he has lifted them up.\u201d <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n Clinton effectively wrote off nearly half the country at that point. Where was the liberal outrage at this gross generalization? Nowhere \u2013 because Clinton\u2019s supporters believed this to be largely true. The white working class had already been written off. Hence the applause and laughter. <\/p>\n In hindsight, I wonder if the election was probably over right then and there.<\/span><\/p>\n Krugman continues: <\/span><\/p>\n In particular, I don\u2019t know why imagined liberal disdain inspires so much more anger than the very real disdain of conservatives who see the poverty of places like eastern Kentucky as a sign of the personal and moral inadequacy<\/a> of their residents. <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n But they do know the disdain of conservatives. Clinton followed right along the path of former Presidential candidate Mitt Romney: <\/span><\/p>\n It was the characterization of \u201chalf of Trump\u2019s supporters\u201d on Friday that struck some Republicans as similar to the damning \u201c47 percent\u201d remark made by their own nominee, Mitt Romney, in his 2012 campaign against President Obama. At a private fund-raiser Mr. Romney, who Democrats had already sought to portray as a cold corporate titan, said 47 percent of voters were \u201cdependent upon government, who believe that they are victims\u201d and who \u201cpay no income tax.\u201d <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
The only way to make sense of what happened is to see the vote as an expression of, well, identity politics \u2014 some combination of white resentment at what voters see as favoritism toward nonwhites (even though it isn\u2019t) and anger on the part of the less educated at liberal elites whom they imagine look down on them. <\/span><\/p>\n