Thread by @ggreenwald

Fascinating thread where CNN stars slowly admit that their rhetorical posture -- everyone who dissents in any way from our decrees is racist and/or stupid -- is alienating and ugly, but they didn't realize this because they live in an "echo chamber" of like-minded liberals:

https://twitter.com/ShellenbergerMD/status/1455745884856078338

This is a major plague in modern journalism. The don't hear dissent. When is the last time Anderson Cooper or Chris Hayes or a NYT op-ed writer dialogued with someone saying they're full of shit? They only talk to and for each other and thus think everyone loves them & agrees.

But even with that painful acknowledgement on CNN -- our insistence on smearing anyone who sees the world differently than we do as racist, fascist and/or stupid makes people hate us -- they can't stop doing it. They're doing it this morning. It's all they know how to do now.

Even if you want to claim that no Virginia voter, absent racism, could possibly reject a life-long supreme scumbag like Terry McAuliffe -- one of the only people ever to be almost too sleazy and amoral for Clinton World -- how to explain all the other huge Dem losses?

This is a great @matthewstoller thread on why the Dem Party cannot "reform" to re-connect with anyone other than their core base of elites and minorities (and even there they're losing ground). They're *structured* to serve the elite managerial class:

https://twitter.com/matthewstoller/status/1455652069738692608

And here, just by the way, is a hilarious Camille Paglia passage from 2008 on why, even given her generalized hatred for Dem operatives, Terry McAuliffe has always been singularly repulsive. Keep telling people only racism could explain rejecting him:

salon.com/2008/05/14/tar…