The American elite, while divided to a degree by partisanship and diverging culturally from the rest of America, are bound by ties of self congratulation and narcissistic self-regard.
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So logically, the “rest of America” must be united by a beautiful solidarity and converging on a true sense of American identity, while separated by walls of self-effacement and self-deprecating other-regard? 🤔😆
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It’s neoromanticism/noble savage all over again. “Where did we go wrong understanding the virtues of Noble Hillbilly?”
“Get in touch with the Real America” is the new “get in touch with our Paleolithic past”
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Non-ruling class Americans are not = Hillbillies, noble or otherwise. Ruling class America isn’t half of the electorate
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Second reply was to Dan. I do think though that the Fox narrative has successfully cast the entire blue, coastal half as “elites” and “ruling class” in a way that has not been counterprogrammed

