No defense for the protected privileged elite

July 24, 2022. Peggy Noonan, along with a number of limousine liberals, seem unable to recognize their own protected status as what it really is, and that is "elite liberal privilege," often accompanied by virtue signaling yet also overtly contradictory behaviors, e.g., demanding the green life for others but not for themselves, i.e., eco-hypocrites. These same limousine liberals -- sometimes posing as "right of center" or "never Trumpers," are happy to put up walls around their properties, employ armed guards for personal protection, and buy beachfront homes (near the oceans they claim are rapidly rising), all the time decrying these same practices by what Noonan refers to as the "unprotected." Per Brett Stephens (once with the Wall Street Journal, now with the New York Times; read into that all you'd like):

"What Trump’s supporters saw was a candidate whose entire being was a proudly raised middle finger at a self-satisfied elite that had produced a failing status quo," he asserted.

"I was blind to this," Stephens admitted. "I belonged to a social class that my friend Peggy Noonan called ‘the protected’," he said and acknowledged his own financial luxuries.

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It's akin to asking the president of Ford where the electricity for the electric automobile in the parking lot comes from, and she replies: "From the building." Or when the presidents of the auto makers fly to Washington DC in private jets to plead poverty, how should one react to that? Or when Trump's advisor on Covid admits to lying about facts about Covid to serve her idea of a greater good?

Telling people to trade in their gas-powered $35,000 Honda CRV's for $75,000 electric Jeep Cherokees again displays the arrogance of the privileged protected over "the rest of us." And this is what happened when Fauci ("I am the science!") shut down America and, in effect, much of the world economy reliant on America, he profited from his inside trades and his fat salary while millions of poor people, small businesses, and service workers were left with very little, meaning very little to spend and very little hope for the future, a future negatively impacted in a terrible way by the loss of up to two years of education to Covid policies.

By claiming that they were "protecting the public" while bankrupting them and profiting themselves, the "protected" like Peggy Noonan and Brett Stephens let shier true colors shine, and the results have been catastrophic for the world, just not for them. Quite the contrary.

Per the legal adage, "cui bono?" [Who benefits?] The answer is showing on your tv screen, in the White House, at the CDC, and at the top of the penultimate page of the weekend Wall Street Journal, i.e., the Noonan weekly nonsense.