"This sounds dreadful to me, but I suspect that for a lot of prosperous liberals, it wouldn't be such a bad thing. For them, there's an alternative to political victory: a utopia of scolding. Who needs to win elections when you can personally reestablish the rightful social order every day on Twitter and Facebook? When you can scold, and scold, and scold, and scold."
In a 2018 Harper's article, Thomas Frank warns Democrats against being merely the champions of the professional class.
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