PJ Media
Richard Fernandez
Jan. 6, 2017
One of the discontents in 2016 was the belief that Washington no longer worked for the voters. There was a perception that politicians preferred the employ of lobbyists and interest groups such as Russia, Saudi Arabia and China. Both parties were pushing agendas often at the behest of foreign potentates, including supposedly private outfits like the Clinton Foundation, because We Are the World.
There was no shame attached to this. Everyone had become an internationalist. In all the trendy places it was cool to speak glowingly of a global bridges and uncouth to talk of walls. One talked of Europe; never a country in Europe. To become a child of the world became normative. There was even a name for those who didn't get with the program. Hillary referred to them as the Deplorables, the holdouts, the men who time had passed by. The phrase had a brief vogue before it was replaced by newer terms: populist, reactionary, supremacist. They all meant the same thing: a class of provincials that politicians no longer felt a compulsion to serve and free to ignore and, if necessary, remold.
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