“Why do you think we have Trump? I mean, even though
he did a big bait-and-switch, as we all know, there were a lot of people that
lost their homes, their community wasn’t what it used to be, particularly if
they lived in the Rust Belt. And then you have these people on the coast
saying, ‘Oh, they should go get training. It’s disgusting.’ I mean, let them
eat cake is let them get training. What you hear from these coastal elites:
People over 40, even over 35, are basically unhirable. Are you gonna train them?
They’re gonna waste their time thinking they can get a new job? I mean, that’s
just lunacy.”—Financial blogger Yves Smith, explaining the impact of the 2008
Crash on American politics, interviewed by Noah Kulwin, “Yves Smith on Why We Didn’t See the 2008 Crash Coming,” New York Magazine, Aug. 6, 2018
Lunacy--or the blindness of Wall Street's Democratic allies.
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