It's time for Republican elites to shut up and listen to the people
Opinion by Dana Milbank
It has been four years since Republican elites sanctimoniously derided the liberal “coastal elites,” the “libtards” in pink hats, the media and urban dwellers generally for failing to “listen” to the “real Americans” in “flyover country” who voted for Donald Trump.
Well, I’ve been listening.
I’ve heard about the net loss of 3 million American jobs — the worst economic record in modern American history — as stock markets deliver greater riches to billionaires and ordinary Americans go hungry.
I’ve heard about a record-shattering $7 trillion added to our national debt and the three largest trade deficits in U.S. history.
I’ve heard about thousands of Americans dying every day in a pandemic, nearly 400,000 in all — by far the world’s worst death toll, in the world’s richest country.
I’ve heard about the abject cruelty of the administration gratuitously (and often permanently) tearing migrant children from the arms of their parent's arms and warehousing them in cages.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/01/15/its-time-republican-elites-shut-up-listen-people/