"Dripping with condescension!"

Laura: "Every now and then a politician unintentionally reveals who he really is and what he really believes."

Bloomberg: "We're just forcing people to understand!"

Laura Ingraham: "The party of inclusion is the opposite. Their big tent has been replaced by a safe space for Leftist victims only! It is not just that the Democratic Party is the party of snobs. It is that, but it is also a deep and unwavering contempt for traditional American ideals. In their elitist views of sanctimonious snobs the rights to life and to liberty are reserved only for those who truly deserve to have them! You have to think the right way to have them!"

"Bloomberg is kind of a miniature pony riding down a well worn Democratic path. From Hillary's deplorables to Obama's bitter clingers, the Left loves to trash the common man while claiming to stand up for him! And their media allies are all too happy to echo their hatred!"

Personifying liberal smugness

Gerard Alexander makes some good points in The New York Times about The Patron Saint of Liberal Smugness, Jon Stewart.

His prodigious talents — he was smart and funny, and even more of both when he was mad — perfectly positioned him to purge a particular smugness from our discourse. Instead, he embodied it.

Many liberals, but not conservatives, believe there is an important asymmetry in American politics. These liberals believe that people on opposite sides of the ideological spectrum are fundamentally different. Specifically, they believe that liberals are much more open to change than conservatives, more tolerant of differences, more motivated by the public good and, maybe most of all, smarter and better informed.

The evidence for these beliefs is not good. Liberals turn out to be just as prone to their own forms of intolerance, ignorance and bias. But the beliefs are comforting to many. They give their bearers a sense of intellectual and even moral superiority. And they affect behavior. They inform the condescension and self-righteousness with which liberals often treat conservatives. They explain why many liberals have greeted Tea Partiers and other grass-roots conservatives with outsize alarm.

And Mr. Stewart, who signed off from “The Daily Show” on Thursday, was more qualified than anybody to puncture this particular pretension. He trained his liberal-leaning audience to mock hypocrisy, incoherence and stupidity, and could have nudged them to see the planks in their own eyes, too. Instead, he cultivated their intellectual smugness by personifying it.

...He could have made the liberals in his audience more open to dialogue across the great left/right divide by asking them to examine themselves more carefully and to admit that both ideological camps contain fools. Instead, he was a cultural entrepreneur who provided those viewers with the validation they wanted.

...After all those years, the comedian turned liberal standard-bearer still didn’t really comprehend the conservatives on the other side of the divide. Worse, he didn’t help his liberal viewers better understand themselves.

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