And I too *like* elites. My brother was one; many of my favorite authors and people are elites. ... all I object to, is the idea that Joe Mainstreet should know his place and not argue with them.
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The irony of Trump being a non-elite ... point very well taken. Not only the way he lives, but the people he has influenced, and the way he's influenced them.
One asterisk to it: those around him characterize him as having a lot of Brooklyn in his blood; he supposedly gets along very well with the plumbers on his worksites. Whereas I think of an "elitist" person, a Vanity Fair editor, needing to wash his hands after shaking them with a high school dropout.
That's probably my imagination in many spots, but when we got the "Deplorables and Irredeemables" speech, I saw dozens of major articles claiming that "half" didn't go far enough. My brother, an Ivy League professor, would have called it 80% or more. And he was VERY uncomfortable in the presence of the lower-middle-class.
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Yes, and when you add up the Trump and Bernie supporters ... there are a lot, a lot, a lot, of people in this country who are tired of being told how to think.
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How do we get civility back? I haven't a clue. It would start with a President who spoke more like Mike Pence or Sam Nunn, than have a lot of the recent people in bully pulpits.
Or not. :: shrug ::