Thursday, July 7, 2016

The hubris also on the side of the Progressives

WSJ - DANIEL HENNINGER - The Trumpen Proletariat

Wonder Land columnist Daniel Henninger says Barack Obama’s presidency of moral condescension has produced an electoral backlash, as seen in the rise of Donald Trump and the “Trumpen proletariat.”

Barack Obama’s presidency of moral condescension has produced an electoral backlash.

Political correctness added something new to the cultural divide: moral condescension.

What has really “angered” so many more millions who now feel drawn into the Trump camp isn’t just PC itself but that its proponents show such relentless moral contempt and superiority toward everyone else. People in America can take a lot, but not that. Marx would have a field day with how progressivism’s cultural elites have reordered social classes between the right-minded and everyone else.