Posted on 08/01/2017 6:02:45 AM PDT by Sir Napsalot
CNN's Fareed Zakaria previewed his documentary Why Trump Won Monday on Wolf Blitzer's afternoon TV program. Zakaria said Trump supporters are "tribal" and saw the 2016 presidential election as an act of cultural and class rebellion against the "educated" urban professionals.
"We tried to get at that deeper issue, which is really a portrait of America," Zakaria said of his investigation into Trump supporters. "A kind of cultural and class portrait of an America that feels deeply resentful about the direction the country is going in and the people who run the country. People, you know, who are professionals, urban, educated. This is, in a sense, an act of class rebellion. It is an act of cultural rebellion. And Donald Trump is their guy."
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ZAKARIA: "...... You can -- you can ask -- we tried to explain why he became their guy, but he is their guy and, you know, my sense has always been, they have latched on to him the way you latch on to a sports team. The fact that the sports team is not doing well does not mean you will give up support. So when people keep watching and saying, well, but Trump is not really a conservative. Ideology doesn't matter. They say, well, he's not accomplishing much. Competence doesn't matter. This is some kind of tribal identity and they're sticking with him."
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To Fareed, Wolfie, et al.,
Enough with the smug snobbishness, already. This tells the world that you 'Elites' only enrich yourselves at the expense of 'those you deem beneath your august selves and unworthy'.
It showed the world that Democrats' tradition and pride of taking care of these people have truly gone dead. Now your party prides itself as the Elite (more truthfully, Elitist) party.
They haven’t a friggin’ clue!
He spelled “elitists” or possibly “establishment” wrong.
Wow. What arrogance.
Yup far-reed, we’re so stoopid. We probublee shunt have guns and be able to drive pick up trux.
btt
A majority of colege-educated White people voted for Trump. Statistics can be sliced and diced myriad ways but...
I would say it was/is an act of class rebellion against professional politicians that ignore their constituents.
“Etiam vetus, etiam vetera”
It is all “code”. Educated=Indoctrinated
And yes, Shaheed, Trump voters are not indoctrinated, they are just smart.
I’ve got three college degrees and probably have a higher net worth than that moron. Voted Trump.
Hope the media continues to insult everyone who didn’t vote for Hildabeast.
You Lost Get Over It
Because all educated people know that it’s a good thing for the country to be overrun with third world parasites.
So very educated.
libtards are oblivious
Trump was elected by the CITIZENS who are sick of fraudulently documented foreigners ignoring ALL of our laws.
Documented foreigners like Fareed don’t want the CITIZENS to be able to keep our country.
Replace “educated” with “indoctrinated,” and he’s correct.
Arrogant? Sure. I despise the condescending and patronizing way these asses describe most Americans. But he's also right. The people who voted for Trump are the heart and soul of this country. The so called 'educated' urban elites have been a cancer that's been destroying America since Ronald Reagan retired to California. We went out and found the strongest champion we could find to do battle and it happens to be Donald Trump.
We are the bitter clingers!
We are smart because we say so, if you agree with us, you are also as smart, by association. Isn’t that the core of it? Education is only as good as education teaches. I am beginning to think we are at the point where they are issuing degrees in stupidity. Go to college and pay to be stupid? You don’t need that kind of a degree to be a Liberal, its a waste of money. Be a Democrat and save. What he misses, its not a case of education, it a case of getting wise after all those years of BS, and waking up to the fact. Wisdom out weighs so called book learning. Lincoln said it; “You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.”
Anyone who learns from life is educated.
I detest arrogance.
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