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Broke: Tweedy intellectuals

Woke: Used car salesmen

Bespoke: Tweedy intellectual used car salesmen

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This analysis is true of literally any mass-political movement. The Bolsheviks didn’t appeal to Russian peasants with endless and intricate discussion of dialectical materialism, they said “we promise: land and bread!” Modern Dem voters know nothing of John Rawls, but they know quite a bit about dem programz.

That you imply American conservative intellectuals are uniquely or even especially guilty of navel-gazing is, I submit, a species of inferiority complex.

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