An unsystematic rant about the working class and "culture"

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I can't help but think Democrats are doing a bit of revisionism of their own if the conclusion is that their campaign was a smart intellectual one, that was nobbled by Idiocracy style vapid populism. Yes, the sort of figures that Trump rounded up were uniformly from the lowbrow worlds of ultra-commercialised sports, trashy reality TV and the like. But what about the Clinton campaign's obsession with courting the world of The Beautiful People? Is this:


a vastly more profound campaign than dragging out Mr Duck Fighter (or whatever) to crack about effete liberals, or whatever? The DNC were never being elitist in the sense they were bragging about reading Dostoevsky, or exclusively playing symphonic music at the DNC or giving every campaign ad with suggested reading material - it was just as lowbrow (or at least low-content) at the end of the day, but still came across as elitist and smug anyway.