What Yglesias suggests, however, is that his connection with fast food is itself a protection — because the white working class likes fast food, liberals don’t, and the former feels
that this shows the latter’s contempt for regular people.
Even aside from the fact that “when did you stop beating your wife?” would, in fact, be a valid question in this guy’s confirmation hearings, you might think
that this nomination would be seen as a total betrayal of the working-class voters who went overwhelmingly Trump a month ago.
Again, objectively those liberals are very much on workers’ side, while the characters who play
on this perceived disdain are set to betray the white working class on a massive scale.
They don’t watch much reality TV, and do listen to a lot of books on tape — or even read books the old-fashioned way.
Actually, I’ve never heard it — the people I hang out with do understand
that living the way they do takes a lot more money and time than hard-pressed Americans have, and aren’t especially judgmental about lifestyles.
But they don’t eat much fast food, because they believe it’s unhealthy and they’re watching their weight.