I had the same response, though not quite as witty. Don't know who this author is talking to but the folks I know who engage in this exercise-as-morality are qu

I had the same response, though not quite as witty. Don't know who this author is talking to but the folks I know who engage in this exercise-as-morality are quite firmly on the Left. The politicians opposing higher wages and subsidized health care did quite well among the smoking, cheeseburger-eating poor. But Jacobin likes to pretend that anyone that even thought of voting for Hilary in the last election is basically a fascist sellout.