What Yglesias suggests, however, is that his connection with fast food is itself a protection — because the white working class likes fast food, liberals don’t, and the former feels<br />that this shows the latter’s contempt for regular people.<br />Even aside from the fact that “when did you stop beating your wife?” would, in fact, be a valid question in this guy’s confirmation hearings, you might think<br />that this nomination would be seen as a total betrayal of the working-class voters who went overwhelmingly Trump a month ago.<br />Again, objectively those liberals are very much on workers’ side, while the characters who play<br />on this perceived disdain are set to betray the white working class on a massive scale.<br />They don’t watch much reality TV, and do listen to a lot of books on tape — or even read books the old-fashioned way.<br />Actually, I’ve never heard it — the people I hang out with do understand<br />that living the way they do takes a lot more money and time than hard-pressed Americans have, and aren’t especially judgmental about lifestyles.<br />But they don’t eat much fast food, because they believe it’s unhealthy and they’re watching their weight.
