This is Why People Think the Democrats are Out of Touch [View all]
Some wonder why two-thirds of the American people think Democrats are out of touch.
The explanation is media coverage.
A good example occurred yesterday. Hillary Clinton made the point that many areas of rural America don’t have high-speed Internet and this could be a cause of slow growth in these areas. She went on to point out that some areas don’t even have cell phone coverage.
As Dave Weigel pointed out in the Washington Post the flood gates of criticism then opened, the gist of which is that she is an out-of-touch elitist. The fact is, her campaign had detailed policies for improving broadband coverage, an issue on which Trump, predictably, is clueless.
Clinton was anything but out-of-touch.
But the media narrative overwhelmed the truth. As Weigel wrote:
“And the firmly established narrative of Clinton and Trump is that she couldn't connect to rural voters, whereas he was a “blue-collar billionaire” who made surprising emotional connections. Trump may be the first president whose plunge to 40 percent approval was marked by stories about the voters who still loved him. And Clinton may be the only politician who can talk about the need for rural broadband — at this point, an almost banal priority of rural politicians — and be accused of snobbery.”
And the media still calls Trump a “populist” after he tried to take healthcare coverage away from 24 million people and is actively attempting to engineer massive tax cuts for the super-rich.
http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/5/3/1658394/-This-is-Why-People-Think-the-Democrats-are-Out-of-Touch
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