Not to say that there isn't something to it, it's just that I've read multiple versions of the past two days. It's just not an interesting analysis.

It masks the fact that there is a pathology of "know nothingism," that runs deep in the US. Antagonism against marginalized members of society. Nihilistic acting out has been normalized by the election of a callow narcissist who cares not a whit for anyone besides himself.

These are the same type of people who grew up hazing fags, mocking black people, and glorifying mysoginist, rapey behavior behavior by "bros" of all stripe.

A lot of focus has been put on the economic dislocation experienced by the working class in the middle of the country. This doesn't ring true to me. I've seen references to the economic demographics of Trump supporters, and overall they have have higher incomes, on average, than Clinton supporters.

(Can't find the article right now, this is an article from May that takes a look)

http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-mythology-of-trumps-...

This reinforces that this is really a cultural divide. It gets around to that sophomoric question of whether being intolerant of "intolerant people" is intolerant.

It's of a pieces with religious conservatives adopting the language of victimhood to, justify their right to discriminate against gays.

When it comes to being annoyingly self righteous, no demographic has a monopoly on that. It doesn't mean that the core beliefs of foes in the culture wars are morally equivalent.