> This is just a very extended rewrite of a stock right-wing trope: you can't trust educated people, because they're fakes and they don't understand real down-t

> This is just a very extended rewrite of a stock right-wing trope: you can't trust educated people, because they're fakes and they don't understand real down-to-earth hard working middle class Americans. Interesting. My takeaway is about 180 degrees from this. I think he’s saying that the vast majority of college graduates are not particularly well-educated. Furthermore, this class of people is just filling the role of very middle class bureaucrats while being sold on the narrative of being something more (e.g., part of the creative class or upper / upper middle class), all while being incredibly conformist in their non-conformity. You say that the targets are “progressives”, but I would say his targets are “poseur progressives”. As someone who highly values the former and is ambivalent about the masses of the latter (esp. in the Bay Area), I agree with the author’s lament of the rise of faux progressives (if, in fact, that is what he is lamenting).