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@@ -97,7 +97,7 @@ Adam Tooze gave from what all I have read, a really fresh analysis of the US ele
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 > And this is not anti-materialist or a refusal of materialism. It's a very specific set of resentments, deeply embedded in the existence of many working-class Americans every day of the week. And as you start from there, what is difficult to understand about the fact that working-class men are not keen to vote for fancy, high-powered lawyer ladies as candidates of the Democratic Party? There's just nothing to my mind that strikes me as surprising about this at all, right?
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-> It adds, you know, and the appeal—or rather the distaste—is compounded by the fact that that fancy lawyer lady is treating Trump as though he's a buffoon. And one of her most successful punchlines in the campaign to the New York Times-reading class is, "I'm speaking now," right? Which is this sort of maternal assertion of power towards whoever it is who's supposed to shut up at that point. In this case, it was a heckler, but it expresses something that working-class Americans will find easy to relate to in a negative way.
+> And the appeal—or rather the distaste—is compounded by the fact that that fancy lawyer lady is treating Trump as though he's a buffoon. And one of her most successful punchlines in the campaign to the New York Times-reading class is, "I'm speaking now," right? Which is this sort of maternal assertion of power towards whoever it is who's supposed to shut up at that point. In this case, it was a heckler, but it expresses something that working-class Americans will find easy to relate to in a negative way.
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 > I mean, is it really surprising that white women without college degrees preferred Trump over Hillary and then Harris by a margin of 25 to 28%? I struggle to understand why anyone finds this surprising. Like, you know, imagine a middle school class, and imagine there's two people throwing a party, and one of them is like the state champion spelling bee girl, and the other one is a high-living frat boy who appears to know how to have a good time. Where would you expect the less academically ambitious girls in the class— which side, which party do you expect them to go to, right?
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