{"id":1953,"date":"2016-08-02T20:31:13","date_gmt":"2016-08-03T00:31:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/?p=1953"},"modified":"2016-08-02T20:34:55","modified_gmt":"2016-08-03T00:34:55","slug":"1953","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/archives\/1953","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\u201cHumans appear to have some need to look down on someone; there\u2019s just a basic tribalistic impulse in all of us.  And if you\u2019re an elite white professional, working class whites are an easy target: you don\u2019t have to feel guilty for being a racist or a xenophobe. By looking down on the hillbilly, you can get that high of self-righteousness and superiority without violating any of the moral norms of your own tribe. So your own prejudice is never revealed for what it is.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat does it mean for our politics? To me, this condescension is a big part of Trump\u2019s appeal.  He\u2019s the one politician who actively fights elite sensibilities, whether they\u2019re good or bad. I remember when Hillary Clinton casually talked about putting coal miners out of work, or when Obama years ago discussed working class whites clinging to their guns and religion. Each time someone talks like this, I\u2019m reminded of Mamaw\u2019s feeling that hillbillies are the one group you don\u2019t have to be ashamed to look down upon. The people back home carry that condescension like a badge of honor, but it also hurts, and they\u2019ve been looking for someone for a while who will declare war on the condescenders. If nothing else, Trump does that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theamericanconservative.com\/dreher\/trump-us-politics-poor-whites\/\" title=\"Trump: Tribune Of Poor White People ~ The American Conservative\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>J D Vance<\/strong><\/a> 7\/22\/16<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cHumans appear to have some need to look down on someone; there\u2019s just a basic tribalistic impulse in all of us. And if you\u2019re an elite white professional, working class whites are an easy target: you don\u2019t have to feel guilty for being a racist or a xenophobe. By looking down on the hillbilly, you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,48,49,34],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1953"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1953"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1953\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1955,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1953\/revisions\/1955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}