What you’re seeing now, played out every night on the news, is class warfare, and it’s you, the person who goes to church, gets physical doing your job, defends liberty, owns a gun, and pays in cash, is on the bottom rung, in the eyes of Democrats and liberal media. If you’re a person of working-class or small-business-class background – or you vote in the interests of the working class and small-business class people – or you’re in an ethnic, religious, occupational, regional, or cultural group that usually votes that way – they hate you. The pot of water has been brought to a boiling point thanks to the years of comments from Democrats and to the current administration. They are undermining the working class instead of championing them as they have historically done, or appeared to do.
The Left used to speak for American labor, and the Democratic Party was once the home of many, if not most, of the people in this country who work for a living. That changed as mainstream liberals of the 1960s such as Hubert Humphrey, John and Bobby Kennedy, and George Meany and Lane Kirkland (leaders of our top labor union), were replaced by radicals and their ideological offspring.
In the early 2000s, Democrats were open to cultural diversity. Howard Dean, running for president in 2003, said, “I still want to be the candidate for guys with Confederate flags in their pickup trucks.” As Democratic chairman during the 2006, Dean recruited candidates like Health Shuler, a former NFL quarterback who ran for the House as pro-life and pro-taxpayer, and Jim Webb, Reagan’s navy secretary who and ran for the Senate as a champion of the working class. Their victories helped Democrats win control of Congress.
But in 2008, Barack Obama spoke condescendingly of people in small towns in Pennsylvania and the Midwest who “get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.” In 2011, Thomas Edsall wrote in The New York Times that “preparations by Democratic operatives for the 2012 election make it clear for the first time that the party will explicitly abandon the white working class.” In 2016, before a wealthy audience, Hillary Clinton said that “you could put half of Trump’s supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables. Right? The racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamophobic — you name it.” In Mumbai, Clinton later bragged that, in 2016, “I won the places that are optimistic, diverse, dynamic, moving forward.”
Other prominent Democrats say similar things, as when former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg noted: “I can teach anybody . . . to be a farmer. It’s a process. You dig a hole, you put a seed in, you put dirt on top, you add water, up comes corn. . . . Now comes the information economy . . . and the skill sets that you have to learn are how to think and analyze. . . . You have to have a lot more gray matter.”
The insults have metastasized. On September 1, Biden declared that “Donald Trump and the MAGA Republicans represent an extremism that threatens the very foundations of our republic,” and that “the Republican Party today is dominated, driven, and intimidated by Donald Trump and the MAGA Republicans, and that is a threat to this country.”
They. Hate. You.
And why wouldn’t they hate you? After all, you’re the reason there’s racism and sexism, poverty, and bad weather. You’re why there’s bullying and you’re why people get shot. You commit 100% of the political violence in our society, and you’re responsible for every single death in the recent pandemic. You’re the reason we haven’t built paradise on earth.
That is what Joe Biden thinks and it’s what most of the people who live in Washington, D.C. think.
Recently, speaking in Ohio, Donald Trump said that Democrats “view 75 million Americans as enemies to be canceled and suppressed. They want to censor you from the Internet, banish you from the public square, get you fired from your jobs, target you for destruction with 87,000 new IRS agents.”
That isn’t the half of it. If you’re a “MAGA Republican” – someone who supports Donald Trump’s “Make America Great Again” policies – they think you’re a threat to democracy itself. Joe Biden said so. They think you’re a fascist, or, in Biden’s terminology, “semi-fascists.” And everyone knows how the U.S. government deals with fascists who threaten our democracy (see: World War II).
It didn’t happen overnight. They’ve gone from making fun of you as inferior, to smearing you as craven, to stirring up hate against you, to turning the awesome power of the government against you to subjugate you. First, they disdained you, now they want to arrest you. In a little over a month, you get the last word.
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