{"id":36855,"date":"2017-01-06T03:00:45","date_gmt":"2017-01-06T08:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=36855"},"modified":"2017-01-05T10:36:07","modified_gmt":"2017-01-05T15:36:07","slug":"the-sustained-denial-of-gentry-liberals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2017\/01\/06\/the-sustained-denial-of-gentry-liberals\/","title":{"rendered":"The sustained denial of “gentry liberals”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Glenn Reynolds<\/a> on the many US liberals who refuse to come out of denial:<\/p>\n

It\u2019s been nearly two months since the election, and Democrats and leftists still haven\u2019t settled down. The campus safe spaces and cry-ins immediately after the votes were counted were bad enough. But the craziness is still going on.<\/p>\n

Why are they so upset? I think it\u2019s because of status anxiety. Our privileged, college-educated left \u2014 what Joel Kotkin calls the gentry liberals \u2014 feels that its preeminent position in American society is under threat. And people care a lot about status.<\/p>\n

What\u2019s more, the people who seem to be lashing out the most are, in fact, just those gentry liberals: academics, entertainers, pundits, low-level tech types, and so on. As journalism professor Mark Grabowski reported, another academic texted him on election night: “Oh my God! We will be the ones ostracized if he wins.”<\/p>\n

Maybe we shouldn\u2019t \u201costracize\u201d people based on whether their candidate wins, but in a way this professor was right: A Trump victory is a blow to the status of the people who thought Hillary Clinton was their candidate \u2014 one that they feel even more deeply because gentry liberals, having been raised on the principle that the personal is political, seem to take politics pretty personally.<\/p>\n

Another example that\u2019s been circulating on the Internet comes from YouTube sex-talker Laci Green. When the election was still uncertain, she tweeted: \u201cRegardless of the outcome, we are clearly a *deeply* divided and broken country. So much work ahead to mend, heal, and restore the U in USA.\u201d Just a few hours later, when it became clear that Hillary had lost, she changed her tune: \u201cWe are now under total Republican rule. Textbook fascism. F____ you, white America. F___ you, you racist, misogynist pieces of s___. G’night.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Glenn Reynolds on the many US liberals who refuse to come out of denial: It\u2019s been nearly two months since the election, and Democrats and leftists still haven\u2019t settled down. The campus safe spaces and cry-ins immediately after the votes were counted were bad enough. But the craziness is still going on. Why are they […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,13],"tags":[1037,670,139],"class_list":["post-36855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-usa","tag-donaldtrump","tag-hillaryclinton","tag-psychology"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-9Ar","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36855"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36855\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36856,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36855\/revisions\/36856"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}