The Pain Of Our ‘Cluster B’ Betters

You have seen it. The common theme to our elites’ disgust at Trump’s win is unmistakable: “We were outvoted by our inferiors!”

Trump did better in every demographic category, and the consistency of our elites’ reactions to this phenomenon is perfect. They look at the vote totals, and whatever the demographic category, the root cause for Trump’s overperformance with “X” must be rooted--not in X’s assessment of the quality of the candidates--but in some distinct moral defect within X: Black men are misogynistic. Hispanic men are racist. White women have internalized the patriarchy. Asians aspire to be white adjacent. White men are…well, ‘nuf said.

And here’s the thing that strikes me: For anyone who has ever had a narcissist in his life, this mode of reaction to unwelcome news is painfully familiar. If you have a narcissist in your life, you know the narcissist must always perceive himself as morally and intellectually superior to all those around him. And when a narcissist is dealing with a bad outcome--no matter what it is or how it happened--it can never, ever, ever, ever be the narcissist's fault. Ever.

So this week, when I look out at our legacy media figures, the late-night hosts, the Hollywood celebs, our academic leadership, and the Democratic party’s leadership, all talking smack about every category of voter, I see an ocean of narcissists--our “Cluster B” betters--shifting all blame, and perfectly uninterested in what might be gained from a moment of self-reflection, or self-criticism, or considering the possibility of error on their part.

How else to explain their failure to entertain the possibility that Trump's win might have something to do with them?

We are ruled by a class of narcissistic schmucks. They cannot lose their influence fast enough.