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.

Look Who Isn't Hitler Anymore

You knew this would happen, right? Liberals pining for the quiet gentlemen George W. Bush. The indefatigable Kyle Smith quotes:

Then, last weekend on “Saturday Night Live,” host Aziz Ansari praised Dubya in his monologue, noting that “George W Bush made a speech after 9/11, and it really helped. Things changed . . . He said Islam is peace.” Bush’s speech was met with overwhelming, bipartisan approval, Ansari noted: “It was about basic human decency and remembering why the country was founded in the first place.” Then the comic caught himself thinking, “What the hell has happened? I’m sitting here wistfully watching old George W. Bush speeches?’ Just sitting there like, ‘What a leader he was! . . . He guided us with his eloquence!’ ”

Of course Aziz Asnari is a misogynist  who brags about schtooping white girls.

The left loves no Republican like it loves the Republican of  the past.

I have noted for years that one day progressives will tell their grand kids they voted for W. He was a good president, and only a partisan incapable of understanding the other side thinks different. The case being:

-W rallied the nation
-W kept us safe after 9/11
-W liberated Afghanistan
-W is the victor of Iraq
-W prevented complete economic collapse via TARP.

There are a lot of small things I like about him, stem cells, AIDS drugs for Africa, the nuclear deal with India, but the above mentioned are the big things.

We've noted a lot of the bad things W did. Steel tariffs, campaign finance deform, NCLB, deficits, a lack of the big vision thing. I'll ad to that refusing to fight the media and the left.

Faults aside W was a good president. Heck, he was near great. One day he'll have a carrier named after him, just like his dad does now, another good president, by the way

W. was an inherently decent person, and the left made him out to be Chimpy McHitler. Sounds familiar?

Oh by the way, during the 2000 primaries, I voted for my man John Wayne McCain.