The Media Elite And The GOP Ruling Class Turn Their Focus To Gingrich

Investors.com, L. Brent Bozell

quote:

It brings us back to Angelo Codevilla's piece last summer in the American Spectator titled "America's Ruling Class." What Codevilla called the "country class" — the party of freedom, as opposed to the "ruling class," which resents the country's input — has rarely captured the GOP flag.[ note: link added]

Comment:

The link to ruling class should be read in its entirety in order to appreciate the point Bozell is making.  It may be useful here for me to go back and re read the piece and extract from it key points:

1. Today's ruling class, from Boston to San Diego, was formed by an educational system that exposed them to the same ideas and gave them remarkably uniform guidance, as well as tastes and habits.
2. But some two-thirds of Americans -- a few Democratic voters, most Republican voters, and all independents -- lack a vehicle in electoral politics.
3. Americans' conviction that the ruling class is as hostile as it is incompetent has solidified.
4. Wealth? ...But they are no wealthier than many Texas oilmen or California farmers ... their careers and fortunes depend on government ...For our ruling class, identity always trumps.
5. But the more it has dumbed itself down, the more it has defined itself by the presumption of intellectual superiority.
6. ...Progressives began to look down on the masses, to look on themselves as the vanguard, and to look abroad for examples to emulate.
7. Franklin Roosevelt brought the Chautauqua class into his administration and began the process that turned them into rulers.
8. By taxing and parceling out more than a third of what Americans produce, through regulations that reach deep into American life, our ruling class is making itself the arbiter of wealth and poverty.
9. Nowadays, the members of our ruling class admit that they do not read the laws. They don't have to.
10. Similarly, by taxing the use of carbon fuels and subsidizing "alternative energy," our ruling class created arguably the world's biggest opportunity for making money out of things that few if any would buy absent its intervention. [ Comment:  I called this "rent seeking".]
11. Any "green jobs" thus created are by definition creatures of subsidies -- that is, of privilege. What effect creating such privileges may have on "global warming" is debatable. But it surely increases the number of people dependent on the ruling class
12. The citizen might end up dissatisfied with what "the system" offers. But when he gave up his money, he gave up the power to choose, and became dependent on all the boards and commissions that his money also pays for and that raise the cost of care. [ Comment: Obamacare]
13. That is why today's Congress consists more and more of persons who represent their respective party establishments -- not nearly as much as in Britain, but heading in that direction. Once districts are gerrymandered "safe" for one party or another, the voters therein count less because party leaders can count more on elected legislators to toe the party line.
14. The government empowers the persons it has chosen over those not chosen, deems them the sector's true representatives, and rewards them. They become part of the ruling class.
15. The union's leadership is part of the ruling class's beating heart. [ Comment: Wisconsin!]
16. By the 1990s federal courts were invalidating amendments to state constitutions passed by referenda to secure the "positive rights" they invent, because these expressions of popular will were inconsistent with the constitution they themselves were construing.
17. Since unmarried mothers often are or expect to be clients of government services, it is not surprising that they are among the Democratic Party's most faithful voters.
18. This dismissal of the American people's intellectual, spiritual, and moral substance is the very heart of what our ruling class is about. [ Comment:  Yes,and if you disagree with them, why, you are just an ignorant redneck.]
19. The fact that the "hockey stick" conclusion stands discredited and Mann and associates are on record manipulating peer review
20. All the dummies and blockheads are with him..." This is all about a class of Americans distinguishing itself from its inferiors.
21. Describing America's country class is problematic because it is so heterogeneous. ...it is different because of its non-orientation to government and its members' yearning to rule themselves rather than be ruled by others
22. the country class's characteristic cultural venture -- the homeschool movement -- stresses the classics across the board in science, literature, music, and history even as the ruling class abandons them.
23. "The sum of good government," said Thomas Jefferson, is not taking "from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned." 
24. America's pro-family movement is a reaction to the ruling class's challenges
25. ...many among the vast majority of Americans who believe and pray that today's regime is hostile to the most important things of all. Every December, they are reminded that the ruling class deems the very word "Christmas" to be offensive.
26. The few who tried to make it so the party treated as rebels: Barry Goldwater and Ronald Reagan. [ Comment:  Newt Gingrich???]
27. The ruling class denies its opponents' legitimacy. [ Comment:  Ironic that Obama is illegitimate according to the rule of law.]

That's 27 points, but even this much doesn't do it justice.   Read it all.

The ruling class doesn't like Gingrich.  Does that make Gingrich a part of the country class as defined above?

You may be able to tell who's who because of number 4 in the list above:  identity trumps all.