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Insufficient admiration for Georgetown cocktail parties is why Trump won

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Needless to say, every column in which a pundit with a sinecure spends 800 words about people being snarky to them on Twitter is an inherently ridiculous thing that should embarrass everyone involved. (This is particularly true when the columnist in question takes pride in being CONTRARIAN and likes to talk about how college students are SPECIAL SNOWFLAKES who need to shut up when they hear things they don’t like, and of course there’s a near-perfect overlap here.)

And yet, full credit to MoDo, she has written something that stands out for sheer fatuousness even by the unsalvageable standards of the form:

Then this week, lefty Twitter erected a digital guillotine because I had a book party for my friend Carl Hulse, The Times’s authority on Capitol Hill for decades, attended by family, journalists, Hill denizens and a smattering of lawmakers, including Pelosi, Chuck Schumer and Susan Collins.

“digital guillotine”

Anyway, if you can’t handle some snarky tweets I would have to suggest that “op-ed columnist for a prominent national publication” may not be the career for you.

I, the daughter of a D.C. cop, and Carl, the son of an Illinois plumber, were hilariously painted as decadent aristocrats reveling like Marie Antoinette when we should have been knitting like Madame Defarge.

Holy Christ, she actually said that because she had a middle class background her Georgetown soirees featuring many prominent politicians she’s supposed to be covering (one of which she had just finished two columns fawning over) are actually populist. As ridiculous as that is on its face, it’s amazing coming from someone who spent years calling mill worker’s son John Edwards a phony because he got expensive haircuts.

Yo, proletariat: If the Democratic Party is going to be against chocolate, high heels, parties and fun, you’ve lost me. And I’ve got some bad news for you about 2020.

Yup, you’ve got us — they only reason one could object to our overcompensated and underacheiving Beltway elites feting each other is because they hate chocolate, and fun. This is why Trump will win. I see no flaws in this theory.

I am reminded of this little item from the Dowd anticanon:

The first hard evidence most people had that Howard Dean was actually married came with a startling picture of his wife on the front page of Tuesday’s Times, accompanying a Jodi Wilgoren profile.

In worn jeans and old sneakers, the shy and retiring Dr. Judith Steinberg Dean looked like a crunchy Vermont hippie, blithely uncoiffed, unadorned, unstyled and unconcerned about not being at her husband’s side — the anti-Laura. You could easily imagine the din of Rush Limbaugh and Co. demonizing her as a counterculture fem-lib role model for the blue states.

While Elizabeth Edwards gazes up at John from the front row of his events here, while Jane Gephardt cheerfully endures her husband’s ”Dick and Jane” jokes, while Teresa Heinz Kerry jets around for ”conversations” with caucusgoers — yesterday she was at the Moo Moo Cafe in Keokuk at the southernmost tip of the state — Judith Steinberg has shunned the role of helpmeet.

She’ll just never have the common touch Maureen Dowd has, I’m afraid.

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