The whole American “I don’t want my politicians getting all fancy and too big for their britches” thing is actually probably good and healthy... until it interacts with racism and xenophobia and becomes really really really really bad. https://twitter.com/ewerickson/status/988511434240864257 …
Of course it is also important that the elitist counterweight to this “anti-froo froo” exist, bc you DO want to serve French-inspired American cuisine for the dinner celebrating the French president. ...duh.