I think Lichtman wanted these things to be true. One of the challenges of living in an echo chamber is that it was easy for him to have his biases confirmed too.
The academic pundits and the old media are "bought and paid for" by the left -- the echo chamber silences all dissent. But even more importantly, The Boston-DC corridor and the left coast with a couple of isolated urban clones of those areas think they are the country, they are as ignorant of rural counties as they are of Gitega (you'll have to look that up). They couldn't find Newton County Missouri on a map and think even less of it. Ignorance is forgivable, but they are not even curious about the terra icognito surrounding them. The reverse is not true, the country people actually visit the cesspools that are the urban areas of America, the country "bumpkins" go shopping there, because the elite class has destroyed the economy of rural America, sometimes the rural "scum" even read or watch the media, so they know the echo chamber, they don't generally like it, but they know it and have a workable knowledge of it. The converse is not true. The folks at Charlies Grill probably made better predictions of the race than pundits, pollsters, and media moguls.
But perhaps more importantly is that Trump and his folks like, no, they love America and Americans and not just the rural folks. I am increasingly convinced that the elites despise America and Americans, they look down on whites, they look down blacks, they look down on hispanics, they think the average American man is toxic, the average American woman stupid. The people around Trump, JD, RFKjr, Nicole Shanahan, Vivek, Tucker, Elon, Joe Rogan and many others genuinely love their fellow Americans and they tend to see us as Americans, not white, black, hispanic, men or women, just as fellow Americans. They know we're diverse but they also know that we are more alike than we are different.
The left, yeah not so much. Now it's up to Americans of all stripes to start seeing each other as Americans, more alike than different. It's either that or the American experiment dies at the age of 240 years.
I think Lichtman wanted these things to be true. One of the challenges of living in an echo chamber is that it was easy for him to have his biases confirmed too.
I think you are right, 100%.
The academic pundits and the old media are "bought and paid for" by the left -- the echo chamber silences all dissent. But even more importantly, The Boston-DC corridor and the left coast with a couple of isolated urban clones of those areas think they are the country, they are as ignorant of rural counties as they are of Gitega (you'll have to look that up). They couldn't find Newton County Missouri on a map and think even less of it. Ignorance is forgivable, but they are not even curious about the terra icognito surrounding them. The reverse is not true, the country people actually visit the cesspools that are the urban areas of America, the country "bumpkins" go shopping there, because the elite class has destroyed the economy of rural America, sometimes the rural "scum" even read or watch the media, so they know the echo chamber, they don't generally like it, but they know it and have a workable knowledge of it. The converse is not true. The folks at Charlies Grill probably made better predictions of the race than pundits, pollsters, and media moguls.
But perhaps more importantly is that Trump and his folks like, no, they love America and Americans and not just the rural folks. I am increasingly convinced that the elites despise America and Americans, they look down on whites, they look down blacks, they look down on hispanics, they think the average American man is toxic, the average American woman stupid. The people around Trump, JD, RFKjr, Nicole Shanahan, Vivek, Tucker, Elon, Joe Rogan and many others genuinely love their fellow Americans and they tend to see us as Americans, not white, black, hispanic, men or women, just as fellow Americans. They know we're diverse but they also know that we are more alike than we are different.
The left, yeah not so much. Now it's up to Americans of all stripes to start seeing each other as Americans, more alike than different. It's either that or the American experiment dies at the age of 240 years.
Wow Albert very informative