Gosh Kevin Williams tell us how you really feel about the heartlandon

[Lonestar]

A dude who knocks urban minorities expands his hate train to white trash

Here's the snippet from the NR column, which is behind a paywall

If you spend time in hardscrabble, white upstate New York, or eastern Kentucky, or my own native West Texas, and you take an honest look at the welfare dependency, the drug and alcohol addiction, the family anarchy — which is to say, the whelping of human children with all the respect and wisdom of a stray dog — you will come to an awful realization. It wasn’t Beijing. It wasn’t even Washington, as bad as Washington can be. It wasn’t immigrants from Mexico, excessive and problematic as our current immigration levels are. It wasn’t any of that.

Nothing happened to them. There wasn’t some awful disaster. There wasn’t a war or a famine or a plague or a foreign occupation. Even the economic changes of the past few decades do very little to explain the dysfunction and negligence — and the incomprehensible malice — of poor white America. So the gypsum business in Garbutt ain’t what it used to be. There is more to life in the 21st century than wallboard and cheap sentimentality about how the Man closed the factories down.

The truth about these dysfunctional, downscale communities is that they deserve to die. Economically, they are negative assets. Morally, they are indefensible. Forget all your cheap theatrical Bruce Springsteen crap. Forget your sanctimony about struggling Rust Belt factory towns and your conspiracy theories about the wily Orientals stealing our jobs. Forget your goddamned gypsum, and, if he has a problem with that, forget Ed Burke, too. The white American underclass is in thrall to a vicious, selfish culture whose main products are misery and used heroin needles. Donald Trump’s speeches make them feel good. So does OxyContin.

Basically, I'm of the opinion that shitting on the economically displaced for voting in people you don't like(be it Trump in the GOP or deep blue liberals), when you've actively supported policies/politicians that exacerbated the problem is a pretty fucked up thing to do.

[Simon_Jester]

The idea of this attitude being widespread among party elites would do a lot to explain why thirty-five years of relatively powerful Republicans having considerable influence (if not outright domination) of the government at nearly all times hasn't done much good for the actual citizenry of the red states in question.

If this is how I feel about someone, then electing me probably won't do them any good, no matter what policies I advocate in my campaign speeches. You can't do good for the governed population if you think their communities should die and if you use words like 'whelping' to describe the process of bringing poorly brought-up children into the world. If you blame their problems on moral anarchy and malice rather than on circumstances which can be fixed.

[Zaune]

Amusing comment from under the blog post where Lonestar found this exerpt:

I could be wrong about this, but I think it was briefly up for free this morning–the first time I clicked through I got the whole column, or at least a much longer excerpt. Perhaps at some point some editors decided this was the kind of content it’s wise to restrict to kind of people willing to pay for access to the National Review.

[Flagg]

Still. Hit the nail on the head. Problem is you're not exactly going to reach them with that attitude. Same thing with Obama's accurate but dumb "Clinging to their Bibles and their guns." Hell if I know how to reach them, though. You couldn't bring up politics when I was growing up with them without hearing torrents of racism, government conspiracies, and fear of "THEM!" and that was 20 years ago.