Democrats Double Down on Elitism
Elitism cost Democrats the presidency; now, they’re doubling down on it. The last four years saw a steady progression of Democrats’ elitist separation from America’s mainstream. This separation accelerated markedly during Kamala Harris’s campaign. Now acting out their tantrums over their stunning defeat, Democrats are becoming yet more elitist.
Despite styling himself “Lunch Bucket Joe,” Biden’s administration was liberally laced with so-called “progressivism” — the very name proclaiming its conscious separation from the mainstream. Immediately, the country’s southern border was thrown open. DEI initiatives proliferated across federal agencies. An inane foreign policy of appeasement was fueled by elitist naivete that our adversaries now liked us and wanted to be like us. Uncontrolled spending flowed into programs of no interest to average Americans, even as that spending helped fuel the inflation that mercilessly plagued them.
When progressive policies resulted in retrogression for average Americans, the administration insolently denied it. The economy was good, inflation was cured — and they waved macro statistics in the face of millions of micro problems. Crime wasn’t up, but down — and again there were the statistics (until they were changed). You were a racist if you didn’t kowtow to DEI’s racism. The border wasn’t open; when it became clear that it was, then it wasn’t their fault that it was — it was somehow Trump’s. When our adversaries’ aggression ran amuck, these were coincidences. And when the administration acknowledged inflation, they used it as cover for hundreds of billions in extremist environmental spending under the guise of the Inflation Reduction Act.
In supreme irony, when the elite’s policies turned Biden into a sure-loser, they turned on Biden. Having replaced Biden with Harris, Democrats’ elitism became even more pronounced.
Where Biden enabled elitism, Harris embodied it.
Her entire nomination by acclamation and then coronation was an exercise in separation from the common herd. Harris was sequestered from the rabble — no primaries, no media, no scrutiny, no pressing when she avoided questions, and no follow-up when she made gibberish statements.
The Harris campaign too exuded elitism. When average Americans complained about inflation, she had a letter signed by hundreds of economists to refute them. Despite Harris’s claims of a middle-class upbringing, her campaign only rolled in first-class and A-lists. Hers was a $1 billion campaign; with more money rolling in than she could reasonably spend, she spent unreasonably. Celebrities like Oprah were paid to attend her rallies. The top headlining performers were enlisted — Springsteen, Beyonce, and Taylor Swift. The sports world was no exception, and LeBron joined her team. The late-night comedians fell in too, even giving her a last-minute political windfall of a cameo appearance on Saturday Night Live.
Then on Nov. 5, America audaciously did to the elite, what the elite had done to Biden just months earlier.
And the Democrats’ response? No humility, no mea culpa, no reexamination. Instead, a doubling down on the elitism that undid them.
What Americans felt Democrats thought of them, they now know. Democrats’ elitist outrage over Harris’s defeat has been a collective, “How dare you?” to the American majority who voted against her.
America must now understand that Biden’s use of “garbage” to describe them was no accident; it was candor. The same goes for Hillary Clinton’s “deplorables” before that, and Obama’s psychoanalysis of their psychosis over God and guns before both.
Rather than admitting that they made a mistake, Democrat elitists are telling America’s majority that it was mistaken. The guilt rests on, take your pick — Black men, White women, Hispanics, and every crosstab of White men (young, old, rich, poor). In short, the guilt is everyone’s but elitist Democrats.
Rather than ascribing fault to themselves, elitist Democrats have prescribed comfort sessions in colleges and high schools for consolation. Their governors in New Jersey, Illinois, and California have described their intended resistance to a Trump administration not yet in office.
The common thread running through today’s anti-Trump outrage is elitism. That these chic Che’s of the far-left and far-away-pensive-look are better, know better, and feel more than the majority of average Americans.
During Biden’s administration, Democrat elitists were limousine liberals, making a pretense of assimilation, they got out of the limo. During Harris’s campaign, they simply stayed in the limo — time was short, after all. Now in their Trump outrage, their limo is driving over the average American who rejected them.
The elite are big “D” Democrats, not little “d” democrats. They are Democrat in party, not in reality. They despise the “demos” — the average people. Wanting nothing to do with them, they ignore them except every fourth year when they demand their vote — and even more, their fealty. Having dared withhold it, the average American is now seeing that hell hath no fury like an elite scorned.
J.T. Young is the author of the new book, Unprecedented Assault: How Big Government Unleashed America’s Socialist Left, from RealClear Publishing and has over three decades’ experience working in Congress, the Department of Treasury, and OMB, and representing a Fortune 20 company.
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