Victor Davis Hanson
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Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah, I mean, that's one of the reasons they lost that iconic moment when Barack Obama started dressing down those staffers. You remember for Kamala Harris, those black, young, really idealistic people they were working for. And he came over and said, you really basically said to them, you're suffering from Marxist false consciousness. You don't know that you're supporting sexist and racist.
Yeah, I mean, that's one of the reasons they lost that iconic moment when Barack Obama started dressing down those staffers. You remember for Kamala Harris, those black, young, really idealistic people they were working for. And he came over and said, you really basically said to them, you're suffering from Marxist false consciousness. You don't know that you're supporting sexist and racist.
Yeah, I mean, that's one of the reasons they lost that iconic moment when Barack Obama started dressing down those staffers. You remember for Kamala Harris, those black, young, really idealistic people they were working for. And he came over and said, you really basically said to them, you're suffering from Marxist false consciousness. You don't know that you're supporting sexist and racist.
But I have to tell you that because I'm morally superior and intellectually superior. And I've got to tell you what you're doing because you're so stupid to find out.
But I have to tell you that because I'm morally superior and intellectually superior. And I've got to tell you what you're doing because you're so stupid to find out.
But I have to tell you that because I'm morally superior and intellectually superior. And I've got to tell you what you're doing because you're so stupid to find out.
And that condescending attitude was why people that were sort of on the grassroots in popular culture, some of the rappers, people like Stephen Smith, Charlamagne Tha God, not that they were for Trump, but they got so sick of all these elite African-American, bi-coastal elite, which they played the same role, Megan, to the African-American male community
And that condescending attitude was why people that were sort of on the grassroots in popular culture, some of the rappers, people like Stephen Smith, Charlamagne Tha God, not that they were for Trump, but they got so sick of all these elite African-American, bi-coastal elite, which they played the same role, Megan, to the African-American male community
And that condescending attitude was why people that were sort of on the grassroots in popular culture, some of the rappers, people like Stephen Smith, Charlamagne Tha God, not that they were for Trump, but they got so sick of all these elite African-American, bi-coastal elite, which they played the same role, Megan, to the African-American male community
that white liberals on the coast and the media universities do to the working class people of East Palestine, Ohio. It's that condescending, we're ashamed of you idea. You're of our same race, but we're ashamed of you. And that gave a lot of latitude for Donald Trump.
that white liberals on the coast and the media universities do to the working class people of East Palestine, Ohio. It's that condescending, we're ashamed of you idea. You're of our same race, but we're ashamed of you. And that gave a lot of latitude for Donald Trump.
that white liberals on the coast and the media universities do to the working class people of East Palestine, Ohio. It's that condescending, we're ashamed of you idea. You're of our same race, but we're ashamed of you. And that gave a lot of latitude for Donald Trump.
What he was basically saying is all you people who are poor whites or middle class whites or middle class blacks or poor middle class Hispanics, you all have more in common with each other than you do with these people. And he was able to, you know, he didn't get a majority, but he was really able to make inroads in that.
What he was basically saying is all you people who are poor whites or middle class whites or middle class blacks or poor middle class Hispanics, you all have more in common with each other than you do with these people. And he was able to, you know, he didn't get a majority, but he was really able to make inroads in that.
What he was basically saying is all you people who are poor whites or middle class whites or middle class blacks or poor middle class Hispanics, you all have more in common with each other than you do with these people. And he was able to, you know, he didn't get a majority, but he was really able to make inroads in that.
And it was a class, shared class anger and repulsion at elites of each of these groups. And what it did is under Trump, Trump really was a maestro at it. He was able to tell these people, if you're a white truck driver, if you're a black carpenter, if you're a Hispanic contractor, you have more in common, you guys, with each other.
And it was a class, shared class anger and repulsion at elites of each of these groups. And what it did is under Trump, Trump really was a maestro at it. He was able to tell these people, if you're a white truck driver, if you're a black carpenter, if you're a Hispanic contractor, you have more in common, you guys, with each other.
And it was a class, shared class anger and repulsion at elites of each of these groups. And what it did is under Trump, Trump really was a maestro at it. He was able to tell these people, if you're a white truck driver, if you're a black carpenter, if you're a Hispanic contractor, you have more in common, you guys, with each other.