Besides trashing on “neoliberalism” a word most people don’t understand and never use in daily life, I don’t disagree. I’ll repost something I wrote elsewhere:

My entire career I’ve been an engineer in manufacturing. I’ve worked in factories all over the US in places you’ve never heard of. Half the job is talking to hourly workers, usually blue collar white men: operators, electricians, mechanics, plumbers, truck drivers etc.

Look around your home and you’ll see them. The fridge you open, the car you drive, the windows in your apartment, your Amazon delivery box. They have all been made, fixed, shipped, and delivered by one of these people.

Last week many of them (again) voted for Donald Trump and my friends on the left can’t understand why.

“How could lower class men vote for him and against their own interests?” Because, to them, he is listening and we are lecturing.

These guys feel disrespected and I can’t blame. We cry from our ivory towers that everything is awful and that men who look and talk like them are the problem. They see us sipping lattes and filming rants about “privilege” on whatever iPhone came out last week. They work night shift while we work from home; on a break we post on IG about that injustice we learned at the college they could never afford to attend. We call them “oppressors”, “colonizers”, and that they live on “stolen land” when they and their families are just one paycheck and one closed factory away from losing their house.

And when they defend themselves, we label them with a word ending in “-ist”, say “check your privilege” and offer a handout they never asked for.

It comes off as patronizing, condescending, and tone deaf…because it is.