Most troubling in all this is the way in which anti-working-class bigotry is now laundered through apparent anti-racism. Despite the clear decline in racism in recent decades, the cultural and political elites have carved out a narrative that it is worse than ever before, particularly among Those People who drive white vans, support Brexit and dislike Jeremy Corbyn. In doing so, alleged left-wingers have made class hatred respectable and anti-racist politics look cut-off and vaguely ridiculous. Which is bad news for both class politics and anti-racist politics.
That the left needs to learn lessons from this historic defeat is obvious. What I’m wondering is if they are even capable of doing so.
Or, as overheard while in line at the DMV, "Why do them Democrats keep yelling at me?"