printMichael Medved does the same as does Tim Carney in explaining the dismal situation of the working class. From a tony event, far from the madding working-class, Carney tweets this:
“The working class has lost access to the strong institutions of civil society that are the infrastructure of the good life. That’s my thesis,” states Carney, “to explain immobility, retreat from marriage, and Trump.”
For working-class misery, neoconservatives and lite libertarians blame everything BUT mass immigration, diversity, loss of community and sense of place. Anything but the truth.
That’s my thesis.
Marriage has declined faster among the working class (HS degree, no college; 30th-50th income %ile) than any other group, according to Tamar Jacoby.
— Tim Carney (@TPCarney) November 29, 2018
Not pictured: the struggling people in West Virginia, Kentucky, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin who have no hope for the future and are dying in staggering rates due to opioid overdoses. https://t.co/huGgVsm9Hm
— Mr Moderate (@minofmod) October 21, 2018
Conservatives engage in WhatAboutism:
I call it conservative WhatAboutism. Ann Coulter rips asunder the conservative media's silly, 'but but, Obama did it, and nobody cared' arguments. She gets to the nub of it: No Wall. No moratorium. No end to mass immigration. No America, @anntensity. https://t.co/hrPo143Aas
— ILANA Mercer (@IlanaMercer) November 29, 2018
#AnnCoulter: 'Trump thinks he needs preapproval of Congress, the ACLU & a district court judge in Hawaii to do something about tens of thousands of Americans being killed every year by illegal alien heroin dealers, drunk drivers and straight-up murderers' https://t.co/hrPo143Aas
— ILANA Mercer (@IlanaMercer) November 29, 2018
Thanks, Patriot @AnnCoulter, for exposing that #Trump bombed Syria b/c #Ivanka cried & that POTUS relies on 'constitutional law scholar' Jared for Wall & immigration advice. Deplorables betrayed, @anntensity. https://t.co/hrPo143Aas
— ILANA Mercer (@IlanaMercer) November 29, 2018
Mass immigration, indeed, @USVeteran2, cannot be ignored as a factor. Did the Hillbilly book or this latest admit as much? https://t.co/K1viLkRpaL
— ILANA Mercer (@IlanaMercer) February 26, 2019