Regrettably, I believe it goes a little further than "their money, their whores and their power".
It's a class thing, as well. They don't want to "share power" with people like us -- you and me, the conservative base. Because we're not like them.
In their mind, we're not educated, we're not sophisticated, we're "hicks". Crude rednecks. "Bitter clingers" in Obama's words -- which they surely agreed with.
See, it's not really Democrat vs Republican anymore. Nor is it conservative vs liberal. At bottom, it's Washington vs The Rest Of Us. And, yes, they are 'out of touch"...because they are "so far above" the rest of us.
that’s far scarier.
At least if it were just greed you could deal with it.
they want an oligarchy, if i’m using the term correctly.
It isn’t just the conservative base that they look down their noses at, not just the bitter clingers. The plantation analogy works fine. The workers cut across all manner of political ideology.
“They don’t want to share power with people like us”
Correct, as far as it goes.
But you have to account for Trump’s tremendous popularity among people like ME - New York born and bred, lived in the Northeast my entire life.
Now, politically, I’m FAR to the right of Trump. Took the red pill and never looked back.
But culturally, man, I can’t get enough of Trump’s New York schtick.
The Kristol phenomenon is about a power struggle WITHIN the NY universe, not outside of it. The Neocons rose to influence with the Reagan Administration, but reached their peak with poor stupid W, and now, since for reasons I don’t completely understand, they feel their potential for a return to power threatened by Trump, they are considering switching sides.
it’s Washington vs The Rest Of Us. And, yes, they are ‘out of touch”...because they are “so far above” the rest of us.
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I think you are exactly right.
I don’t think working class democrats are any happier with their party than we are and that is why many of them will support Trump.