Demokraternas kandidat 2016

“The culture so dramatically symbolized by the Southern redneck [is] the greatest inhibitor of the plans of the activist Left and the cultural Marxists for a new kind of society altogether,” Webb wrote in Born Fighting. “And for the last fifty years the Left has been doing everything in its power to sue them, legislate against their interests, mock them in the media, isolate them as idiosyncratic, and publicly humiliate their traditions in order to make them, at best, irrelevant to America’s future growth.” Webb described “rednecks” as an “obstacle to the collectivist taming of America, symbolized by the edicts of political correctness.”

Commenting on a statement that Howard Dean made during the Democratic primaries, Charles Krauthammer opined that Dean was campaigning for the “white trash vote” by pandering to “rebel-yell racist rednecks.” In the Wall Street Journal, Webb called this “the most vicious ethnic slur of the presidential campaign,” noting dryly that Krauthammer “has never complained about this ethnic group when it has marched off to fight the wars he wishes upon us.”

Sanders both defended his female opponent, Clinton, on television, and then, after the debate, physically defended a female reporter. While it didn’t appear to be a political calculation and, instead, a genuinely real moment, the two separate events further humanized Sanders and highlighted that he’s more than just a policy wonk — he’s capable of actual human compassion. Even Republican voters who watch the below video footage have no choice but to give it up for Sanders, especially in contrast to today’s news in which Donald Trump demanded Secret Service protection for himself.