Anyway it’s hilarious to see people - particularly established journos who went to legacy schools - wondering gamely how it could be that educated people might buy into bullshit

When you are trained to think of status as truth, you tend to believe anyone who oozes status.
Which is how you get people now saying things like “but nobody would believe trump, he’s NEW MONEY! So GAUCHE!”

Well, okay, but a bunch of well-connected assholes said to support him to stop socialisms and they said it over lukewarm chicken at a gala benefit, so...
All that’s happened here is that some people thought they’d found a useful idiot and they went around telling all their friends to hop on this bandwagon, and then a bunch of people did, and now folk are shocked SHOCKED that anyone would fall for that
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