"The people who voted for Trump knew that they were seen as backward rubes by the college-educated," I write in my most recent LA Review of Books essay- on Will Bunch's "After the Ivory Tower Falls." https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/revenge-of-the-poorly-educated-on-will-bunchs-after-the-ivory-tower-falls/
@johannneem Nobody cares about their being "rubes." What we care about is that they elected an unprincipled and amoral thug who cares about nothing but himself and who'd happily bring the country itself down to save himself.
@johannneem And BTW: this poor-me-the-left-hates-us stuff has been going on since Reagan and Rush Limbaugh. Right-wing media has carefully cultivated and grew this feeling of "victimization" for more than 40 years; Murdoch has made millions from it because everybody loves to claim to be oppressed. FOX catered to this group in particular and nursed its grievances. Now it's their central identity: being hated and put-upon (as if nobody had anything better to do). Pretty sad, really.
@johannneem At LEAST since Reagan, I meant to say. Maybe it started with Nixon.