Letter to the editor: Beyond complacency

To the editor:

Since Nov. 9, I have repeatedly heard that one of the explanations for the shocking result was the “complacency of the middle class.” Maybe I’m missing something, but I just don’t see the connection. While it might be true that the middle class has become complacent, I just don’t see how this explains why so many people chose to see greed as progress, prurience as playful hijinks, tweets as substance, boasting as ability, tyranny as authority, racism as patriotism, denial as nullification and narcissism as power.

The yawning gap between each of the two descriptors, that’s where it all falls apart for me; middle class complacency does not explain this. Frankly, I don’t know what does.

Oh. And Trump has the nuclear codes now. Are you scared yet?