They Weren't Born in a Small Town...

The most estimable Kyle Smith reviews a book about the White Working Class:

‘We’re voting with our middle finger,” a Trump supporter in South Carolina told a reporter last fall. No doubt.

Pretty much.

Smith describes the never ending Kulture Kampf the urban left has waged on the WWC for the last 50 years. He goes into the economic crisis faced by the WWC and offers this fascinating tidbit.

At a high school reunion, [the author's] husband returned home still using the habits he had picked up in the upper class, and it led to an uncomfortable moment. “What do you do?” he asked an old classmate. When you’re a lawyer or a financier, part of the global professional class, it’s a perfectly innocent question. Elites love to talk about their jobs, indeed define themselves by their professions. Not so the WWC. They see work devotion as an indicator of upper-class narcissism. They do the bulk of the boring, repetitive, unglamorous work, some of it physically demanding, and they don’t define themselves by their labors at all. That classmate of Williams’ husband replied spitefully, “I sell toilets.”

Now we had no idea about that, and are as guilty as anyone of asking with a confident nod, 'So what do you do?' Here's another fascinating tidbit, which we guess we kinda sort knew:

WWC women want to spend less time at work, not more. They wish they had the option of being stay-at-home moms, and even if they were men they know they wouldn’t be in the running to be CEOs. A woman from Appalachia says in the book, “I’m voting to save my boyfriend’s job."

Smith swears the author is not conducting an anthropological survey but simply trying to understand a demographic cohort  that was widely ignored by politics and culture.

This area is totally foreign to the bi-coastal elites. It's almost as if they never even heard of John Mellencamp:

John Mellencamp is a Democrat, btw, but there is no place for him in the Democrat Party.

Right now that party is run by a smarmy Jew from Brooklyn and a whackjob old lady from San Francisco. It's most visible congresscritter is Maxine Waters, who ought to be standing outside of a drug store in LA shouting things at invisible animals. Schummer actually made a speech at Trump's inauguration where he invoked something called 'gender identity', which he doesn't really mean.

There's no hope for them.