"Meghan O'Rourke is clearly channeling the supporters of Adlai Stevenson when she writes:

"She animated the cultish, irrational mob impulse in her supporters."

If you want to understand why a sizeable number of Clinton supporters will not vote for Obama, all you have to do is read this obnoxious screed. Characterizing the other candidate's supporters as "cultish" and subject to an "irrational mob impulse" is not my idea of the best way to actually win over votes you desperately need if you're to have any hope of winning the general election."

So what is new?

"prescient article on George Orwell and why British Socialism never took off with working men and women in Britain. As one of the few Clinton supporters who can actually read, I'll precis it for you: the British working class did not reject socialism because they had a problem with the tenets of socialism, but rather, they rejected socialism because they could not stand British socialists themselves."

Thats like the USA. We did not reject socialism and progressive liberalism when they turned to Reagan and the Republicans. They were trying to reject Feminism & its homosexual allies, which had turned on and begun to prey on the rest of the democratic party, the working class and the progressive white male heterosexuals, dividing the party.

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They found the average British socialist to be an officious, arrogant snob who looked down on them.

Very Much like the Yuppies once they were past draft age!

"As Obama supporters are "the best and the brightest" surely you must be able to see that. I believe Shaw made the same point in a different context in the preface to "Saint Joan." Typically, people don't like to hear themselves mocked as racists, dummies, or both."

This has become SOP, for all opponents. In fact the media is full of constant overt/covert misandry & misogny, insults to someone, in shows, commercials, in special station messages, most often demeaning heterosexual working class white guys, I suppose because they are a powerless minority.