The Right in the U.S. has used lower-class resentment of “high-education, socially liberal elites” to hammer its political opposition for decades. It’s true that the Democratic Party hasn’t been as supportive of the working class as it could have been, but the other party IMO is certainly worse in that respect. Nevertheless, the Right has used anti-intellectualism, and the culture war issues of guns and abortion, to demonize its opponents and to get people very much not in the elite to vote for the party of plutocrats.
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