5/14/16
The April 22 edition of the Wall Street Journal approvingly quoted Emmett Rensin castigating
liberals for being smug and condescending toward the working and middle
classes. In response, I sent the
following letter suggesting that the glass house residents on the Journal editorial staff should perhaps
refrain from throwing stones. The
letter was never published, but I thought you’d like to read its now often
replicated message:
4/22/16
Oh, the irony of the Wall
Street Journal, reliable champion of the Republican establishment and
perhaps Donald Trump’s staunchest opponent, so approvingly quoting Emmett
Rensin’s observations on the smug and condescending attitudes of the modern
American liberal! (“Notable and
Quotable: Liberals and the Working
Class,” 4/22/16)
Mr. Rensin is entirely correct in his observation that the
liberals of today have lost the working class because the bi-coastals who run
the Democratic Party look on those who toil in the hinterlands as hopeless
rubes who don’t know what’s good for them.
But doesn’t the Journal see
that the Republican establishment feels the same way about the working class
that is supporting Mr. Trump in droves?
The Journal and the Republican
establishment for which it serves as a mouthpiece were utterly baffled that the
GOP rank and file did not brim with enthusiasm for the neocon likes of Jeb Bush
and Marco Rubio…until the establishment and its mouthpiece concluded that
Trumpism “was not a political ideology at all” and that “the stupid hacks
didn’t know what’s good for them”…like near religious fealty to “free trade”
and perpetual, counter-productive wars in places in which we have few interests
and fewer friends.
Perhaps the Journal
is in need of a good, imported, “free trade” mirror.
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