Why the Media were stunned by the huge Democratic Defeat?
None of them know anyone who votes Republican.
Well said. All these media people are part of the Washington/New York media axis. They live on the upper west side. They rarely get out of Manhattan or Washington. They don’t know any Republicans. They believe the “what’s the matter with Kansas” business, in which they can’t believe how it is that so many vote for Republicans.
“How on earth did Nixon win? I don’t know anyone who voted for him.”
Pauline Kael, NY Times, 1972
Exactly right. They live in their own echo chambers and are insulated from any reasoned arguments. The stupid just bounces around over and over till the dumbest ideas sound good to them.