- Fri Mar 31, 2017 8:09 am
#85449
Tom Petruno writes in Kiplinger's of Trump's "surprise" win.
But how many financial journalsts grew up doing agricultural labor? How many of them have broken rock with a 20-pound sledge? How many of them have learned conversational Spanish working along with illegal immigrants?
My point is that journalists very often live and work in a suburban echo chamber, with predictably liberal socioeconomic views and that this outlook can make them "surprised" at a Trump insurgency.
I was not surprised at all, and there were infrastructure and other investment implications which I saw a year ago in all this.
I looked up the background of the journalist who was surprised. He has an undergrad degree and worked for USA Today and the LA Times, both conventionally pro-Democrat publications. Naturally, he was surprised at Trump's win, but it was no doubt his own experiential naivete which caused surprise.
But how many financial journalsts grew up doing agricultural labor? How many of them have broken rock with a 20-pound sledge? How many of them have learned conversational Spanish working along with illegal immigrants?
My point is that journalists very often live and work in a suburban echo chamber, with predictably liberal socioeconomic views and that this outlook can make them "surprised" at a Trump insurgency.
I was not surprised at all, and there were infrastructure and other investment implications which I saw a year ago in all this.
I looked up the background of the journalist who was surprised. He has an undergrad degree and worked for USA Today and the LA Times, both conventionally pro-Democrat publications. Naturally, he was surprised at Trump's win, but it was no doubt his own experiential naivete which caused surprise.
- By johnforbes