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The collective mental breakdown among self-styled progressives since Donald Trump’s re-election has been quite the sight to behold. The subsequent declaration by many that they will leave X, in protest of that platform’s supposed descent into fascism, has made matters all the more entertaining. What a glorious outpouring of self-importance and self-righteousness, combined with an utter lack of self-awareness. Though such tantrums are amusing, the spectacle has also been appalling. This has been a grim cocktail of piety, sanctimony and belligerence, with rancour and malice thrown in, too. If the cleavage between remote, moneyed liberals and normal people was laid bare by the US election result, the fall-out since has made the gap appear all the more cavernous.
Perhaps the most egregious response came from the host and panellists on the BBC comedy show, Mock the Week, who carried on belittling Brexit voters into the next decade with an unrelenting fervour that no doubt hastened that show’s cancellation in 2022. That decision, in turn, was met with snotty, snobbish outbursts on the programme’s final episodes. So yes, these tantrums have been fun, as car-crash viewing. But do prepare yourselves for this stream of resentment to continue, just as it did after 2016. The elites won’t find peace and permanent hermitage on Bluesky. They’ll be back, demanding once more to be heard and once more to be obeyed.
One of the most smug and irritating regular guests on Mock the Week was John Oliver. He has since moved to America, where he has become a smug and irritating presenter on HBO’s Last Week Tonight. On Sunday evening, Oliver launched into one of his trademark rapid-fire sermons, this time on the issue of trans children competing in school sports. ‘There are vanishingly few trans girls competing in high schools anywhere. Even if there were more, trans kids, like all kids, vary in athletic ability and there is no evidence they pose any threat to safety or fairness’, he said.
We have come to expect such tin-eared aloofness from our overclass.
The collective mental breakdown among self-styled progressives since Donald Trump’s re-election has been quite the sight to behold. The subsequent declaration by many that they will leave X, in protest of that platform’s supposed descent into fascism, has made matters all the more entertaining. What a glorious outpouring of self-importance and self-righteousness, combined with an utter lack of self-awareness. Though such tantrums are amusing, the spectacle has also been appalling. This has been a grim cocktail of piety, sanctimony and belligerence, with rancour and malice thrown in, too. If the cleavage between remote, moneyed liberals and normal people was laid bare by the US election result, the fall-out since has made the gap appear all the more cavernous.
Perhaps the most egregious response came from the host and panellists on the BBC comedy show, Mock the Week, who carried on belittling Brexit voters into the next decade with an unrelenting fervour that no doubt hastened that show’s cancellation in 2022. That decision, in turn, was met with snotty, snobbish outbursts on the programme’s final episodes. So yes, these tantrums have been fun, as car-crash viewing. But do prepare yourselves for this stream of resentment to continue, just as it did after 2016. The elites won’t find peace and permanent hermitage on Bluesky. They’ll be back, demanding once more to be heard and once more to be obeyed.
One of the most smug and irritating regular guests on Mock the Week was John Oliver. He has since moved to America, where he has become a smug and irritating presenter on HBO’s Last Week Tonight. On Sunday evening, Oliver launched into one of his trademark rapid-fire sermons, this time on the issue of trans children competing in school sports. ‘There are vanishingly few trans girls competing in high schools anywhere. Even if there were more, trans kids, like all kids, vary in athletic ability and there is no evidence they pose any threat to safety or fairness’, he said.
We have come to expect such tin-eared aloofness from our overclass.