It’s war:
The left was correct in 2016 when they predicted that if Trump won there would racism and violence–only it is against Trump supporters, but that doesn’t count as violence…those Trump supporters ‘deserve it’, according to the far-left’s ‘logic’.
left-wing elitist Josh Barro missteps (Josh did not realize that the MacDonald’s account, which made the anti-Trump tweet, was hacked):
2. Most revealing is its ugly elitism. Something Josh (& many others) engage in often. It is the false notion "elites" really are better pic.twitter.com/VxbMKprRuj
— Chris Arnade (@Chris_arnade) March 16, 2017
1. This is just a bad tweet. It is nasty & condescending. It is also terribly uniformed. Go to any minority community. McDonald's are packed pic.twitter.com/mMH198MwVj
— Chris Arnade (@Chris_arnade) March 16, 2017
The NRx critique here is that Josh is technically correct (about the elites) and is conveying an anti-democratic view, although tactlessly; but his first tweet is wrong, because as noted by Chris Arnade, inner-city minorities consume McDonald’s as much, if not more so, than Whites.
Both neocons and neoliberals, such as Josh Barro, tend to be be elitist, pragmatic, and consequentialist, in contrast to the far-left (social democrats, welfare liberals) and far-right (nationalists, traditionalists), that are more populist.