Ann Coulter: Why are they so angry? | Opinion | marshallnewsmessenger.com – Marshall News Messenger
Posted: July 14, 2021 at 1:54 am
Today well talk about how to write the classic New York Times column, using Thomas Edsalls recent Trumpism Without Borders as our example. It must have taken him about 40 minutes to write it.
Edsall blames the populist movements sweeping the globe on the same ills that led to a right-wing takeover of the federal government by Donald Trump. To wit: anti-immigrant fervor, political tribalism, racism, ethnic tension, authoritarianism and inequality. Fascism awaits us unless we keep importing low-skilled immigrants and shipping jobs abroad!
For someone worried about the erosion of democratic norms, maybe Edsall shouldnt be referring to the outcome of a free and fair U.S. presidential election as a right-wing takeover of the federal government. We had an election, pal.
But ever since the 2016 election, theres been a frisson of viciousness to the elites usual contempt for ordinary Americans. Never mind that Trump ended up betraying his voters. The establishment is appalled that the issues he ran on were popular. Five years later, they still sputter in rage, unable to comprehend why Jeb or Hillary didnt end up in the White House.
To explain this calamity, Edsall rolls out all the Timesian cliches about losers being upset about losing. He calls this the ubiquity of loss, as if were talking about a natural phenomenon, like beach erosion.
Trump voters, he says, are people who are angry about:
their inability to achieve a standard of living as high as that of their parents,
the decline of the gender pay gap ... and other types of loss relative to women, and
losing employment and earnings to China and other countries.
Edsall acts as if these things are immutable laws of physics. Actually, they result from the deliberate policy choices of our ruling class to benefit some Americans to the detriment of others.
Specific policy decisions were made to import an endless stream of low-skilled workers. Employers got boatloads of cheap labor, while ordinary Americans saw their wages plummet.
Oh, and if were pretending to care about democratic norms, Americans have voted for less immigration over and over and over again. If anyone in the establishment gives a crap about democratic norms, then why do they keep foisting more immigration on us?
Specific policy decisions were made to explicitly discriminate against white men in order to give jobs to women, simply because they were women.
I give you Kamala Harris (Bidens one job requirement for his VP: must be a woman of color); every police chief in the nation (save a couple of black men); and Kara Hultgreen (who died when she crashed a $38 million F-14 after being continuously promoted despite repeated training failures, because the Navy wanted a female fighter pilot).
What crybabies! These guys resent losing jobs because of abject discrimination against them. Koo-koo! Koo-koo!
Specific policy decisions were made to gut our countrys manufacturing base. Globalist bankers got rich, and the working class got the shaft.
The destruction of American manufacturing wasnt, as Edsall claims, a consequence of trade. (Whos buying our stuff?) International agreements forcing Americans to compete with dollar-an-hour third worlders were a gift to Big Business and Wall Street. They get a larger share of a much smaller pie. Sure, our country overall will make $30, instead of $100. But the 1 percent will get $29 instead of $20!
We dont need Thomas Edsall to psychoanalyze Trump voters in order to understand what happened in 2016. We were at DEFCON 1 as a nation. (And thanks to Trumps betrayal, we still are.)
After 20 years, people began to notice: The elites really do hate us. They really are going to ship our jobs abroad. They really are going to replace us with cheap foreign labor. They really are going to let in hordes of illegals. They really are going to bail out Wall Street and preserve their sleazy tax loopholes.
Faced with a choice between the toxic left and country club Republicans, when a complete psychotic came down the escalator, people thought, He might just mean it! (That was a miscalculation.)
The elites screw over ordinary Americans, then to salve their consciences, they call the poor saps racists. They get to maintain a system that benefits only them and at the same time feel morally superior to the people whose lives theyve ruined. Its win-win all around!
Americans dont care about the gender pay gap, climate change or international institutions. They deserve whats coming to them!
Ann Coulter is a syndicated columnist.
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