Joe Biden's moronic attack on 'elitists'

Enough with the folksy common man schtick

Joe Biden.
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Were you aware that Elizabeth Warren and her campaign are "elitist"? I am because Joe Biden told me. According to the 76-year-old front-runner for the Democratic presidential nomination, who has never had a real job in his life for more than a few months (he first ran for office at the age of 27) and spent 36 years as a United States senator before becoming vice president, Warren is a typically snooty upper-middle-class white Ivy League liberal. "If you don't agree with Elizabeth Warren, you must somehow be not a Democrat. You must somehow be corrupt. You must somehow not be as smart as she is."

Those poor people. My heart really does go out to all the super PAC-funded, John Podesta-approved, focus-grouped pro-Wall Street anti-single-payer health care centrist Democrats, none of whom are wealthy or possess credentials from elite institutions or have any powerful and influential friends. There they are at the fringes of American public discourse, shut out by the mainstream media, their talking points dismissed out of hand, slandered, hated, shunned. The last thing they need is some smart-ass financial lawyer from Harvard, a school where no one agrees with them about anything, talking down to them from her lofty perch.

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Matthew Walther

Matthew Walther is a national correspondent at The Week. His work has also appeared in First Things, The Spectator of London, The Catholic Herald, National Review, and other publications. He is currently writing a biography of the Rev. Montague Summers. He is also a Robert Novak Journalism Fellow.