The Four Classes of America

For John, BLUF:  President Trump is a disrupted.  Nothing to see here; just move along.

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A class guide to the 2020 presidential election: Joel Kotkin

From The Orange County Register by Mr Joel Kotkin, 20 July 2019.

Here is the lede plus one:

America’s electorate in 2020 has been dissected by race, region, cultural attitudes and gender.  But the most important division may well be, in a nation that has become profoundly unequal, along class lines.  All politicians, from Donald Trump to Elizabeth Warren, portray themselves as “fighting for the middle class” and “working families.”

Yet our increasingly neo-feudal America is best broken down into four broad groups — the oligarchs, the clerisy, the yeomanry and the serfs.  The oligarchs dominate the economic realm, including control of information media.  Below them are sometimes allied members of the clerisy, the well-educated middle class who set the country’s intellectual and cultural context.

This is a better way of looking at the eectorate.

Hat tip to the InstaPundit.

Regards  —  Cliff