Noonan uses the German immigration problem to point out how our leaders make policy decisions that don't impact them, but impact the average people hardest, and in many cases violently hard. As she describes it:
This is about distance, and detachment, and a kind of historic decoupling between the top and the bottom in the West that did not, in more moderate recent times, exist.Consider how often you can look at the biographies of our business and political elites, and they all seem to share certain factors: Ivy League educations, a work history with one of the "too big to fail" banks, or coming from a wealthy family.
The West is becoming more stratified. Donald Trump's political success is almost a cry for help from our abused lower classes. Too often the political elite accuse him of racism, while ignoring one factor of his success: Most racism can be found among the poor and lower income people, who are suffering under the burden of supporting our political elites' politically correct views, which actually do nothing to help anyone, other than making our elites feel good about themselves.
If the elites aren't careful, the next Trump won't be nearly as kind to them.
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