The Blue State Model: How the Democrats Created a "Liberalism of the Rich"

[friendly_iconoclast]

8. Here's how I *know* you didn't read the linked Thomas Frank article:

Because you completely elided the discussion of Fall River, one of the neglected
post-industrial cities that establishment Massachusetts Democrats like to ignore
until elections come around.

Fall River, in Bristol County that went Democratic in all three Presidential elections of the 1980's:

http://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/datagraph.php?year=1980&fips=25&f=0&off=0&elect=0

http://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/datagraph.php?year=1984&fips=25&f=0&off=0&elect=0

http://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/datagraph.php?year=1988&fips=25&f=0&off=0&elect=0

You also elided the mention of our Democratic former governor taking a job with Bain Capital,
a company founded by Mitt Romney:

http://www.baincapital.com/team-members/bain-capital-corporate/deval-patrick

Deval Patrick
Managing Director
Boston
Experience

Mr. Patrick joined Bain Capital in 2015 to found a new business that focuses on impact investing. Prior to joining, Mr. Patrick served as Governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts for eight years. Before entering public office, Mr. Patrick was Executive Vice President and General Counsel of The Coca-Cola Company. He also worked as Vice President and General Counsel of Texaco, Inc. and served on the company’s Executive Council. Mr. Patrick was previously a Partner at Day, Berry & Howard and a Partner at Hill & Barlow. In 1994, he was appointed by President Clinton as Assistant Attorney General overseeing the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice.
Education

Mr. Patrick graduated cum laude with a BA degree from Harvard College and earned his JD degree from Harvard Law School.

I think the above CV rather makes W.B. Michaels' line about neoliberalism worth repeating:

"...(I)t’s basically OK if economic differences widen as long as the increasingly successful elites come to look like the increasingly unsuccessful non-elites."