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Guest Post by Ol’ Remus

The New York City press, aware of their stair-stepping down to oblivion if nothing else, has chosen to draw out the embarrassment to themselves and the city by publicly offing itself by degrees.

Joe Briggs at Taki’s Magazine, in his memorable essay “I Guess I’m an Angry White Man”, cites the New Yorker’s mental collapse when Trump was elected:

David Remnick, the very white editor of The New Yorker, also went berserk in print, calling the election a “sickening event” and a “tragedy for the American republic” that was caused by “xenophobia” and “white supremacy,” “a triumph for the forces, at home and abroad, of nativism, authoritarianism, misogyny, and racism.” Angry White Men in the swing states rose up like villagers with torches and lynched the rightful heir to the presidency. I could cite a hundred other examples, and they’re all angrier than the angry men they write about.

Tim Kreider at The Week online, New York City’s hometown version of the magazine, says this about we Deplorables:

A vote cast for Trump is kind of like a murder; there may be context to consider — a disadvantaged background, extenuating circumstances, understandable motives — but the choice itself is binary and final, irrevocable. There’s a case to be made that it’s indefensible; that his supporters have forfeited any right to be respected or taken seriously. The conservatives of the heartland have lashed back against the coastal elites’ condescending, classist prejudices by defiantly confirming them: that they’re pathetically dumb and gullible, uncritical consumers of any disinformation that confirms their biases.

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Mr. Kreider is more honest than most. He makes it plain President Trump is a proxy for middle America, which he, and most of the city, holds in unalloyed contempt. In the recent past, this sort of stuff was aimed at Appalachia, a safe stand-in for everything Not New York.

During the election the New York Daily News most openly pandered to the city’s bizarre notions of what’s good for everyone else. Think of the Daily News as an unsanitized New York Times, what they say to each other when they put their style sheet aside for the day. The Daily News says what New York City thinks while wringing their hands about “a public arena emptied of any civility, universalist ideas or openly competing political visions beyond a zero-sum tribal antagonism of identity groups”, all without a suspicion of irony.

Malicious banter unfailingly becomes their reality. On Inauguration day, the New York Daily News put the city’s sneering contempt this way:

Today, our nation is entering a new era with a new President who normalizes bigotry, sexual assault, sexual harassment, xenophobia, dishonesty and so much more.

Insults and mockery, perfected by generations of standups for their improv routines about Appalachia, are coming to include everyone not actually insane or depraved. Appalachians live their whole lives smeared as “pathetically dumb and gullible, uncritical consumers of any disinformation that confirms their biases”. Consider us inoculated. We’ll leave the light on for you.

Beware, the put-downs aren’t always this obvious. For one instance, the Waltons featured John Boy, an aspiring poet/writer who couldn’t pull the trigger on a wild turkey but makes good in the “real world” to the bewildered admiration of the touchingly simple humanoids “left behind”. The message is clear, Appalachia is a picturesque catch basin for the residue of selection.

The Waltons is just one of many. This sort of elitist preening has a long history. “Condescending” is too casual a word for it. “Fraud”, marinated in mental squalor, comes closer. Look for the media to revive the formula, but with their cast of benighted riffraff updated to include everyone west of the Hudson without a cadre address.