Surprised to see this from counterpunch. They were some of the most hysterical Russia kooks last year.
βIf you look at the map of the United States, thereβs all that red in the middle where Trump won. I win the coasts. But what the map doesnβt show you is that I won the places that represent two-thirds of Americaβs gross domestic product (GDP). So I won the places that are optimistic, diverse, dynamic, moving forwardβ - Hillary Clinton, last week (emphasis added).
That was Hillary Goldman Sachs-Council on Foreign Relations Clinton saying βfuck you very muchβ to working- and middle-class people in Iowa, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, Missouri, Indiana, and West Virginia. It was a raised middle finger from a super-wealthy arch-global-corporatist to all the supposedly pessimistic, slow-witted. retrograde losers stuck between those glorious enclaves (led by Wall Street, Yale, and Harvard on the East coast and Silicon Valley and Hollywood on the West coast) of human progress and variety (and GDP!) on the imperial shorelines.
Wow. Call it βDeplorables II.: The Wall Street Witch Strikes Again!β