Elitism Killed Criminal Justice Reform

It isn’t doing the Democratic Party any favors either.

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“David Shor is Telling Democrats What They Don’t Want to Hear,” (again) and the New York Times’ Ezra Klein is repeating it for good measure.

“I think the core problem with the Democratic Party is that the people who run and staff the Democratic Party are much more educated and ideologically liberal and they live in cities, and ultimately our candidate pool reflects that,” David Shor told the Times.

Politico, for its part, agrees wholeheartedly with Shor’s assessment, calling it “The Democrats’ Privileged College-Kid Problem.” Other publications have been shouting the same thing from the rooftops for months now, even years.

Whether Democratic Party elites will listen, however, is doubtful. Not since conservatives were in control of all the major institutions, corporations, and cultural influencers has any group been so drunk on its own self-important feelings of moral superiority.

Everyone- from moderate Democrats to veteran Democratic Party strategists- has been warning that upper and middle class liberals on Twitter don’t speak for the majority of the party, however loudly they speak. Progressives getting too high on their own supply, swimming in online echo chambers and clamoring for more censorship of political opinions…