Newsweek: Political realignment

This article in Newsweek is evidence that the elite class are finally starting to figure out why they are wrong all the time.  The authors did make a fundamental mistake.  Trump caused this political realignment.  John McCain, Mitt Romney and other establishment Republicans were comfortable managing the decline of America.  My younger brother called them puppet-dickheads.

This last week, during an interview with Republican Vice-Presidential candidate JD Vance, ABC’s Martha Raddatz tried to dispel concerns about Venezuelan gangs infiltrating Aurora, Colorado by stating that only “a handful of apartment complexes” in the city were affected. Listen more closely, and that benign-sounding dismissal is actually more sinister than it seems.

After reading Hillbilly Elegy, by JD Vance, a couple of years ago, I was unsure about Vance.  He seemed like a gifted opportunist.  Vance seemed to have views, but his fundamental principles weren’t clear.  I don’t doubt him anymore.  The authors of the article are correct in calling out this interview as a great example of the entire issue. 

Here is a portion of the exchange from the  transcript of Vance interview.

RADDATZ: Senator Vance, I’m going to stop you because I know exactly what happened. I’m going to stop you. The incidents were limited to a handful of apartment complex — apartment complexes and the mayor said our dedicated police officers have acted on those concerns. A handful of problems.

VANCE: Only — Martha, do you hear yourself? Only a handful of apartment complexes in America were taken over by Venezuelan gangs, and Donald Trump is the problem, and not Kamala Harris’s open border?

Vance is great at calling bullshit on members of the elite class who don’t care about Americans, then he goes on to clearly explain how Americans are being harmed.

Back to the Newsweek article.

As former staffers on Capitol Hill and now advocacy professionals, we have been observing the phenomenon of narrative-makers—media, lobbyists, think tanks, and other political practitioners—indulging in the stereotypes set by their peers on a subset of lawmakers (stereotypes such as “unreasonable” and “extreme”).

This is what changed, and what gives me hope.  These elite class narrative-makers have been replaced.  The internet gave everyone the information and historical record.  Rush Limbaugh called out these narrative-makers for several decades on AM radio.  He spawned many new narrative-makers on Youtube, blogs and podcasts.  They were all on the outside, looking in.

Donald Trump went into the ring to challenge the old narrative-makers and political establishment.  During his first term, Trump was up against all the Democrats and half of the Republicans.  Most of the Republican puppet-dickheads are gone now.

As we detail in our research paper “Class Dismissed,” of all the major caucuses in the House of Representatives, the four with the lowest average median incomes are the conservative Anti-Woke caucus and Freedom Caucus, and the liberal Hispanic Caucus and Congressional Black Caucus. While the partisan affiliation of these caucuses may differ, these members share a distressed constituency and a willingness to agitate the leadership of each party in an effort to wake up to the realities in their communities.

Those four caucuses are opposed by the caucus for angry, liberal, White women on SSRI-inhibitors and the men who want to sleep with them.

Blacks and Hispanics don’t support the queer agenda.  Sure, they know some gay guys from the gym, and a little lesbo action in a movie can spice things up, but they don’t want a degenerate sex clown reading to their children at the public library.

The enduring image of the BLM riots, is an angry, liberal White woman on SSRI-inhibitors, yelling at a Black cop about his White privilege.  People in poor neighborhoods don’t want suburban warriors coming into their neighborhood to burn it down, while schooling them on structural racism.

Hispanics appreciated easy admission to the US to cut lawns and clean houses, but they figured out that as soon as they were legal, those jobs were taken by the next group of illegals who would work for low wages, no health and safety protection and imminent threat of deportation.  Now, it’s poor Blacks from countries much poorer and dysfunctional than Mexico.

On the other hand, our analysis shows that members with more presumed bipartisan dispositions represent the wealthier communities in Congress. And as we suspected, these members and their caucuses are often viewed by the narrative-makers as more responsible and prudent legislators.

Wealthier communities have been immune to America’s decline. 

  • They are against a border wall for our country, but have walls around their houses and communities.
  • They are in favor of race-based affirmative action because their kids aren’t that smart, but can outperform a few marginal students who have to hold down a job while attending classes.
  • They don’t mind the government bringing in unvetted migrants from the poorest countries in the world to settle in small cities across the country.  Those little cities don’t have the infrastructure, but they also don’t have any national journalists.
  • They are okay with dumbing down the public schools.  Their academically unimpressive children go to private schools with just the right amount of social justice theory.
  • They think regulatory overreach is fine.  An induction stove is so much sleeker than some clanky-looking gas stove.
  • Green energy sounds wonderful to them.   If it takes driving a Tesla to show how virtuous they are, then the government might as well spend billions of dollars to subsidize them.
  • It’s a shame that their teenage girls have to get their tits cut off to show how progressive the parents are, but honestly, the parents look too good to be grandparents anyway.

The old race-baiting, “Republican candidate is Hitler” playbook isn’t working.  It isn’t clear that anyone knows how to untangle the damage they’ve done or remembers how organizations are supposed to work, but we’ll see.