The Middle of Somewhere

Salena Zito Apr 03, 2018

............Earlier this year, Bill Kristol, editor at large at The Weekly Standard, tweeted ahead of the Super Bowl that it was too bad two Acela Corridor teams, the New England Patriots and the Philadelphia Eagles, had to play their matchup "in the middle of nowhere."

It was a reference to the host city of Minneapolis' location in the Midwest, far from the "civilized cities" of Boston and Philadelphia -- the assumption being that unless you are on the East Coast, your town's sophistication and glamor could not live up to the modern amenities of a cosmopolitan city...............Hillary Clinton not only got wrong in the last election but is still getting wrong. Her remarks in India in March reinforced that........"If you look at the map of the United States, there's all that red in the middle where Trump won............."I won the places that represent two-thirds of America's gross domestic product. So I won the places that are optimistic, diverse, dynamic, moving forward. And his whole campaign, 'Make America Great Again,' was looking backwards."

Clinton is not the only person to hold that contempt. Many of her supporters have gone on to agree with her and hold those same strident positions -- and their condescension toward half of the country has only deepened since November 2016........To Read More.....