2016 Postmortem

johnnyrocket

(1,773 posts) Wed Mar 30, 2016, 09:23 AM Mar 2016

National Review just comes out and says it: Fuck you poor white trash!

Wow...

https://amerortho.wordpress.com/2016/03/25/the-national-review-finally-just-comes-out-and-says-it-fuck-poor-people/

National Review link here: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/432876/donald-trump-white-working-class-dysfunction-real-opportunity-needed-not-trump

The truth about these dysfunctional, downscale communities is that they deserve to die. Economically, they are negative assets. Morally, they are indefensible. Forget all your cheap theatrical Bruce Springsteen crap. Forget your sanctimony about struggling Rust Belt factory towns and your conspiracy theories about the wily Orientals stealing our jobs. Forget your goddamned gypsum, and, if he has a problem with that, forget Ed Burke, too. The white American underclass is in thrall to a vicious, selfish culture whose main products are misery and used heroin needles. Donald Trump’s speeches make them feel good. So does OxyContin. What they need isn’t analgesics, literal or political. They need real opportunity, which means that they need real change, which means that they need U-Haul.

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National Review just comes out and says it: Fuck you poor white trash! (Original Post) johnnyrocket Mar 2016 OP

Why are we supposed to care what those assholes think again? JaneyVee Mar 2016 #1

They and their ilk created this situation and now want to attack their victims over it. Dustlawyer Mar 2016 #2

+1. historylovr Mar 2016 #4

"What they need isn’t analgesics, literal or political." VulgarPoet Mar 2016 #3

In defense of the article, cheapdate Mar 2016 #5

The more the conservative elite write articles like this forjusticethunders Mar 2016 #6

sounds like a lot of Dems really MisterP Mar 2016 #7

Sounds like it could have been posted right here at the DU Cheese Sandwich Mar 2016 #8

Wouldn't surprise me in the slightest. sibelian Mar 2016 #9

JaneyVee

(19,877 posts)

1. Why are we supposed to care what those assholes think again?

Reply to johnnyrocket (Original post)

Wed Mar 30, 2016, 09:26 AM

Mar 2016

Dustlawyer

(10,495 posts)

2. They and their ilk created this situation and now want to attack their victims over it.

Reply to johnnyrocket (Original post)

Wed Mar 30, 2016, 09:31 AM

Mar 2016

historylovr

(1,557 posts)

4. +1.

Reply to Dustlawyer (Reply #2)

Wed Mar 30, 2016, 09:41 AM

Mar 2016

VulgarPoet

(2,872 posts)

3. "What they need isn’t analgesics, literal or political."

Reply to johnnyrocket (Original post)

Wed Mar 30, 2016, 09:34 AM

Mar 2016

THIS. Clinton will be more of the same. The Rust Belt doesn't need more of the same.

cheapdate

(3,811 posts)

5. In defense of the article,

Reply to johnnyrocket (Original post)

Wed Mar 30, 2016, 09:45 AM

Mar 2016

"The white American underclass is in thrall to a vicious, selfish culture" is true for a part of the group. The ones who cheered Ronnie Reagan while he dismantled labor unions; joined the vicious attacks, led by the US Chamber of Commerce, the AEI and their Republican allies, against Nancy Pelosi and other Democrats who led efforts to pass legislation to protect American jobs from outsourcing; who enthusiastically embraced the GOP's full-throated defense of wealth and privilege.

Now they embrace another GOP millionaire who tells them blacks, Muslims, and Mexicans are the problem.

I'm sorry, my sympathy is just not there.

forjusticethunders

(1,151 posts)

6. The more the conservative elite write articles like this

Reply to johnnyrocket (Original post)

Wed Mar 30, 2016, 10:08 AM

Mar 2016

The more alienated they'll get from the RW noise machine.

Beating Trump will go a long way towards discrediting this crap, and beating Trump with Bernie even more so.