This SNL Joke Epitomizes Liberal Smugness, Explains Why Democrats Lost Virginia

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Sneering elites condemn the life choices of voters who didn't go to college.
(That's most of the country.)

https://youtu.be/h2hvXqpN-AE

Few explanations for the Republican Party's upset victory in Virginia are as
compelling as this 30-second clip from the opening sketch of last week's
episode of Saturday Night Live.

"My win in Virginia proves that people are deeply concerned about education,"
says the actor portraying a smirking Glenn Youngkin, the GOP governor-elect
who defeated Democratic challenger Terry McAuliffe earlier this month.

"And who are most of your voters?" asks the fake Judge Jeanine Pirro on her
fake Fox News program. Fake Youngkin delivers the punchline: "People who
didn't go to college." And the crowd goes wild.

It's only a stupid joke, but it would be hard to find a better example of the
smug condescension and sneering elitism among Democrats and their media
allies that so many Americans find repulsive. It is designed to appeal to
SNL's bespoke fanbase, which is predominately white and college-educated.
Meanwhile, the vast majority of Americans are "people who didn't go to
college," who are still allowed to vote and care about what their children
are being taught in grade school.

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, just 33.1 percent of Americans over the
age of 25 have a bachelor's degree or higher. As you might expect, it's not a
very diverse demographic. Nearly 80 percent of Americans with at least a
bachelor's degree are white. They are wealthier than most Americans and
significantly more likely to use words and phrases such as "Latinx," "white
privilege," "structural racism," and "my pronouns are."

It's a demographic that looks and sounds a lot like the Democratic Party,
which in recent years has seen a surge in support among college-educated
voters while non-college voters-a much larger and more diverse demographic-
have flocked to the Republican Party. Democrats have been doing their best to
reward their educated supporters by pushing student loan forgiveness, giving
tax breaks for rich people in blue states, and insisting that Americans
earning $400,000 a year-six times the median household income-are "middle
class."

Republicans can only hope that Democrats will continue to embrace their role
as the party of smug elites and nominate Pete Buttigieg for president in
2024. The Harvard and Oxford educated 39-year-old is a media darling and
beloved by rich white liberals. His fluency in foreign languages and his
ability to cite examples of structural racism from literature (however
dubious)-never mind his actual record on race relations as mayor of South
Bend-make him ideally suited to court white college grads who follow Ibram X.
Kendi on Twitter and can afford a $40,000 electric car.

Until then, good luck in the midterms!

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Let's go Brandon!