As Paul Krugman wrote in yesterday's excellent...Times, Trump is not a president, he's a cult leader and his supporters are really followers, groupies,
not constituents.
We constantly hear about the divide in America today. Krugman illuminates from where that divide originates: the elitist mentality that mostly comes from the left of the political spectrum. Krugman, as you have done yourself, Lyzko, portends that all Trump supporters are mindless uneducated automaton hayseed unsophiticates; while, those opposing him , whether on the left or right, are urbane cultured educated men and women of common sense and sophistication. It's just immensely narrow, stupid and arrogant (there's really no other way to put it).
Trump supporters are just as educated, cultured, and sophisticated as any one else in this country. Many of his supporters have college degrees, own businesses, work in the professions (I know a lot of lawyers, doctors, engineers, and CPAs, and the majority of them support Trump). What Krugman puts forward, and what you accept, is simply empirically baseless.
The division in America comes from Krugman and people like you who said somewhere on this forum that Middle America needs to get up to speed with the coasts.
Instead of elitist arrogance try to cogently argue on the merits, and realize the parchment that hangs on your wall does not necessitate wisdom and superiority. Like Bloomberg who claimed he could teach anyone how to farm or turn a lathe, but not just anyone can be taught to work in the digital economy (2:1 odds Bloomberg has no idea how to grow anything or how to forge, but the farmer he looks down on knows how, plus they know how economics and finance work), those who see themselves aloft the great masses are neither wise or superior, but woefully ignorant of the reality of the skills, aptitudes, sophistication, and intelligence of many who populate the middle of America and/or support Trump. What Trump supporters want is government to serve the interest of the people. If you want to make an argument against Trump argue how he's not doing such.
Instead of elitist arrogance try to cogently argue...and realize the parchment that hangs on your wall does not necessitate wisdom and superiority.
Should say: Instead of elitist arrogance try to cogently argue on the merits, and realize the parchment that hangs on your wall
or zip code does not necessitate wisdom and superiority.