Newsweek: Bernie Sanders Says Democratic Party Has Become a 'Party of Coastal Elites'

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205. :) Democrats are "coastal elite" instead of "same as Republicans"?

I'm fine being called "elite." Even though of course it's intended as an insult, "elite" is obviously anyone on the left who values what we have far too much to be drawn to his class warfare-type populism.

Hardly a surprise that he's positioning himself to draw distressed post-election "heartland" Americans -- i.e., Trump's angry conservative populists aka Trumpsters -- to him. He drew as many as he could before, and there should be a bunch wandering in the post-election wilderness for him scoop up. Also, of course, he needs to reel back in his base of socialists-whatever-that-is and resentful LW populists and other malcontent LW types.

(If it encourages some of those to not vote, well, if there's no real difference between us and Republicans does it really matter any more than it did (not) in 2016?)

Btw, of course MOST AMERICANS are "coastal elites." 40% of us live in counties right ON the coast, and another 30% in coastal-aligned regions. And 63% of all Americans in those scattered dots, or what Trump calls those "anarchist""out of control cities." And precious few of us want to burn down our barn instead of fixing it up.