Posted on 08/01/2017 7:41:01 AM PDT by Kaslin
Six months later...CNN's Fareed Zakaria has it figured out. Or at least he thinks he does.
Donald Trump became President Trump, the host mused, because Americans wanted to stick it to the elites.
"The election of Donald Trump is really a kind of class rebellion against people like us, educated professionals who live in cities, who have cosmopolitan views about things," Zakaria said.
"There's a part of America that is sick and tired of being told what to do by this overeducated population that Hillary Clinton perfectly represented. That's why they're sticking with him," he continued. (Free Beacon)
Zakaria went on to argue that during the campaign Trump monopolized on the "ugly racial animus" many voters already felt having to endure eight years of a black president. They felt threatened, Zakaria suggested, that minorities were beginning to try to claim the dominant status once held by the "white working man."
How often have we heard these same excuses from liberals? Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton blamed racism and sexism for her loss too - along with, of course, Russia and FBI Director James Comey. She's even writing a book what she thinks happened.
Now, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer is finally admitting what the rest of us already knew - Hillary was an awful candidate. They had the right message, he argued. They just didn't have the right messenger.
Yet, too many "astute" analysts like Zakaria fail to consider that maybe Americans voted Trump into office because they liked his ideas and the direction he wanted to take the country.
Nope. His demographics were misogynist, prejudiced buffoons.
Same narrative, different narrator.
Nor is over-educated accurate. Over-degreed, yes, but most of what the author calls "elite" aren't all that bright and display their ignorance as publicly as they display their diplomas. At one point "elite" meant some sort of meritocratic superiority but now it simply means membership in a social class. Not the same thing at all, especially when membership in that class is filtered through the holy trinity of race, sex, and sexual preference. The elite aren't, and it shows. And most of them would profit greatly from a boot up the ass from their "inferiors".
1) The public has become very anti-establishment. That means against Democrats and Republicans. Against the entire lobbying structure of the US government. Against the revolving door of Goldman Sachs into the White House. Of policy and alliances grown to enrich Wall Street at the expense of small and medium size business.
2) They were looking for someone NOT Romney. Not someone who is milquetoast, but someone that would stand up against the establishment media and establishment middle class.
3) They public was looking for the anti-Bush and anti-Rubio; rejecting nation building, lies about Islam is peace, and immigration policy designed to help the Chamber of Commerce
4) A public that saw 8 years of dismantling secular Middle East leaders and seeing them replaced with fanatics and wanted us to get out of that mess. They didn’t want us to remove Assad and risk WWIII while doing it. Those of those in the GOP that doubled down on removing Assad and making Putin the punching bag drove more voters to Trump
Fareed is not over educated. He is over employed.
The elites also don’t want to talk about the fact that we didn’t just support Tump’s agenda, we supported Trump PERSONALLY. We didn’t just want a “fighter”, we wanted a take-no-prisoners street brawler and a fearless gladiator.
And thank God, our gladiator was elected president!
God bless you, President Trump!! We back you 100% and are thankful that it’s you in the Oval Office.
“by this overeducated population that Hillary Clinton perfectly represented”
Hillary, overeducated..... Got it.
Sticking it to the elites was only part of the reason Trump won. What an idiot!
Fareed needs a good slap to the face....
Arrogant, typical elitist ahole. Being “educated” doesn’t mean that you know anything about reality or that is really useful.
I’ll be Zakaria couldn’t change the points on an old car’s carburetor, or change an S-Trap on a sink.
“When comes the Revolution, he’ll be the first to go.” Madame Lafarge.
Oh wow, nothing gets past Zakaria. LOL
We gotta smart one on our hands!
The only thing they know is how to self promote any lie will work.
Just where should Zakaria look, to find points on a carburetor?
CIRCA 2014 Wash/Post:https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/columnist-fareed...
Columns by CNN host Fareed Zakaria, who was disciplined after a plagiarism controversy two years ago, are under scrutiny after new accusations from an anonymous Internet watchdog that says he copied passages from other writers’ work.
Zakaria is a petty criminal trying to advance to an Elite Criminal.
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