Kevin de León. . is mounting a challenge to Senator Dianne Feinstein, arguing that she’s too willing to work with President Trump and out of touch with working-class voters. “It’s a tough race,” he admitted over an açaí bowl at a diner in San Diego.
Yeah, he’s totally in touch with working-class voters. They love discussing their shared love of açaí bowls with him.
I don’t happen to belong to a class that has even seen a photo of an açaí bowl, let alone eaten it. Maybe I should look for one while I’m in Seattle because I’m missing a cultural opportunity here.
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This reminds me of that (probably made up) story by David Brooks about traumatizing a working class person with gourmet Italian sandwiches…
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I now want to try an acai bowl. They are at smoothie bars and I’ll bet you house painters eat them, lots of people.
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Yes, the working classes are flocking to their favorite smoothie bars. :-)))
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I’m not joking. Here, those are at the most blue-collar of gyms and strip malls. There, at the most proletarian beaches. I work with those prisoners, remember, and a result is ex-cons underemployed take me to these places when I visit. I realize it sounds exotic — and it sounds ridiculous in the article. Still, I now want an acai bowl.
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“house painters eat them, lots of people.”
are you channeling your inner Trump? Many such cases!
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I am serious or perhaps I live in a weird place. I’m not talking about the poor or the food insecure, I’m talking about people with enough money to go to a smoothie shop. When I was a child it was true, “sophisticated” food was eaten only by intellectuals, but nowadays truck drivers drink espresso, sushi is everywhere, açaí I learned about from a student’s quite poor mother who was nonetheless interested in health food. So yeah, the article sounds precious and I wouldn’t write the candidate up that way, but I am saying that eating açaí don’t mean …. etc.
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P.S. Also, this was in San Diego. People practically live on fruit down there. Go to smoothie stands down on the beach. It’s perhaps not a downright underclass thing to do, but working class, sure.
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The article just feeds into the stereotype of clueless liberals who brag about their deep understanding of the proletariat over acai bowls. This is so tone-deaf and hopeless that I despair.
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Right, the article is not trying to help him win, that’s for sure. But he really is more down with the people than Dianne Hawk Feinstein, who really needs to go. I have been sick of her since the 1970s. All these people I will miss keep retiring, but she sticks around.
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