Trib election editorial ‘Donald Trump’s win was a stunning repudiation of the chattering classes’ disconnected from election reality

 

Trib election editorial ‘Donald Trump’s win was a stunning repudiation of the chattering classes’ disconnected from election reality

 

 

The Trib’s analysis is problematical on several levels.

 

 

The title term ‘chattering class’ is a Republican meme designed to smear deeply passionate progressive advocates for a more supportive, inclusive and democratic society. It feeds into the Republican agenda to portray supporters of lower and middle class advancement as out of touch elites. Calling assistant deans, network anchors, public health officials and newspaper journalists ‘liberal elites’ is an ad homonym insult not worthy of seeing print. 

 

 

The Trib’s characterization of Harris’ agenda to uplift society is false. I heard dozens of her speeches which laid out in concrete terms to her economic plan to grow middle and loser class wealth with tax incentives to purchase their first home and restrict tax increases to the wealthy. Trump’s plan which most economists blasted due to billionaire tax cuts goosing the deficit and massive tariffs costing working families thousands, would balloon the deficit possibly more than the $7 billion increase Trump achieved in his first term.

 

 

Democratic leaders, faced with a difficult choice once Biden dropped out just 107 days from election, made a sterling choice. Harris, an insider to the presidency for three and a half years at Biden’s side, was eminently more qualified than any other choice. She rewarded her selection with a passionate, spirited and common sense campaign that shamed Republicans for choosing a convicted felon, who tried to overturn his 2020 defeat using mob action that injured over 150 police protecting American democracy. Yet, the Trib mentions none of that in its rush to degrade Harris’s principled campaign.

 

 

Harris did not “abandon the working class, especially men, by deeming so much of what they felt was unacceptable.” Speaking honestly and intelligently, did not get herself “on the wrong side of the numbers game.” It was Trump, who got on the right side of the numbers game with abusive, profane and disgraceful rhetoric never before heard in a presidential campaign. It was so offensive one not enamored of it needed a shower afterwards.

 

 

The Trib Editorial Board might benefit from reviewing an hour comparing Harris’s eloquent speeches to the incoherent ramblings of Trump impersonating an overserved blowhard in a bar.

Then offer a revision on the election connected to reality.