Even if America is going through a political realignment, the dichotomies therein still contain a common thread: the avaricious strong outfacing the righteous meek.  Urban-dwelling toffs trying to stamp out salt-of-the-earth provincials is the most frequent framing of the ballot-box broigus.  Public affairs scholar Michael Lind pitches the conflict as one between the managerial elite and the working class.  Irish ink-spiller John Waters depicts the divide in architectural terms: "subsidized," sedentary office chair–warmers against callus-handed, "concrete"-molding stoop laborers.  Julius Kreen bins the working class from conflictual consideration, positing that the electoral war is actually between two capitalist clades: "elites primarily dependent on capital gains and those primarily dependent on profes­sional labor." However you slice it, a new configuration's afoot.  Many a bold...(Read Full Post)