The Arrogance of Blue America

The Dailey Beast ^ | 4/30/17 | Joel Kotkin

[amnestynone]

n the wake of the Trumpocalypse, many in the deepest blue cores have turned on those parts of America that supported the president’s election, developing oikophobia—an irrational fear of their fellow citizens.

The rage against red America is so strong that The New York Time’s predictably progressive Nick Kristoff says his calls to understand red voters were “my most unpopular idea.” The essential logic—as laid out in a particularly acerbic piece in The New Republic—is that Trump’s America is not only socially deplorable, but economically moronic as well. The kind-hearted blue staters have sent their industries to the abodes of the unwashed, and taken in their poor, only to see them end up “more bitter, white, and alt-right than ever.”

The red states, by electing Trump, seem to have lost any claim on usually wide-ranging progressive empathy. Frank Rich, theater critic turned pundit, turns up his nose at what he calls “hillbilly chic.” Another leftist author suggests that working-class support for Brexit and Trump means it is time “to dissolve” the “more than 150-year-old alliance between the industrial working class and what one might call the intellectual-cultural Left.”

[amnestynone]

Joel Kotkin is one of the best commentators around. His www.newgeography.com is one of the hidden gems of the internet.

[Dr. Ursus]

I agree. Everyone should read the entire article-Great!

[Still Thinking]

The rage against red America is so strong that The New York Time’s predictably progressive Nick Kristoff says his calls to understand red voters were “my most unpopular idea.” The essential logic—as laid out in a particularly acerbic piece in The New Republic—is that Trump’s America is not only socially deplorable, but economically moronic as well.

Yeah, the universal success of collectivist steal-and-bribe regimes definitely proves contemptuous blues have the right to feel superior....oh, wait....

[PLOM...NOT!]

The blues are off their freakin rockers.
It’s time to bring back the insane asylums and start filling them up.

[Ciexyz]

I myself am getting sick of Drudge showcasing all the fake news and slanted, biased stories. I’m going to scan the headlines to see if anybody died or a war was started, but I’m not going to click on those slanted articles and read them.