raised in genuinely insalubrious circumstances

The right’s full-on moral panic over Ocasio-Cortez’s allegedly spurious working-class identity reached a bathetic crescendo in January

Bill Clinton, Tony Blair, Lionel Jospin, and their many epigones were, very pointedly and precisely, not the left but assumed as a matter of course that they would retain the loyalty of the traditional left

their hyperbolic excesses and elisions are blatantly obvious to the people whom they are professing to speak for

similarly parlous risk

an excuse for a sex palaver

populist rage burns through the deracinated industrial centers of the global north as liberal urbanites concentrate in increasingly isolated, privatized, and financialized city-centers

Like a tumor metastasizing undetected, this is the eerie, twisted echo of Thatcher’s apothegm about the illusory nature of society.

This, not coincidentally, is the same invidious rhetoric of superior virtue favored by the liberal’s adversary.