Morning Jeezly Crows

Anglachel highlights Bob Somerby's taking Paul Krugman to task for "kick[ing] down at little people."

Mr. Somerby:

One part of the answer to those questions is simple. Why are we so bad at messaging and pushing back? In part, it’s because we liberals see politics as a chance to name-call “working class people”—the people whose “anger and frustration” Nixon “successfully exploited.” Forty years later, we still love to do it! Indeed, it’s the shape of our modern politics. We love to call them dumb—and they love to see us lose.

Anglachel:

What benefit can come to liberalism by being constantly on an intellectual and cultural offensive against working class Americans? Somewhere between nothing and less than zero.

I'm glad to see this coming up more often. (Hi, Daisy!) It is, to use current clichés, the conversation we need to have. (ETA: One of Sara Robinson's prescriptions involves enlisting communities of faith. Here's the link again.)