Liberals worry

The Charleston Gazette frets about the drift of West Virginia to the Red State column, so much so that they turn to Le Monde to explain the shift.

Le Monde said the GOP, Fox News and other right-wing voices stirred working-class resentment against superior-acting left-wingers - the liberal elite, a horde of quibbling lawyers, haughty academics, depraved journalists and know-it-all actors.- It added: "This con trick is possible only because the smugness of those in the know is even more insufferable than the insolence of the rich.

There is something laughable about a West Virginia newspaper looking to a French newspaper to explain West Virginians to them. And it explains more than they would like us to know about the antecedents of the Liberal mindset, the haughty eliteism, the cronyism of the Left, the faux-intellectual superiority, the corruption and pettiness, the outright fraud when necessitated by the prospect of loss, and the unmitigated class warfare that is so French as to be patentable.

Le Monde got a lot of it right. More so than the Charleston Gazette who opine:

Since the Democratic Party represents working families, and the Mountain State consists mainly of them, we hope the pendulum swings back, and the state’s electoral votes cease going to the party of the rich.

Since the fall of the Soviet Union, the lefty Liberals have not been able to update their handbooks.