To all you Prosecco-sipping, kale chip-munching elites out there in Big Law Land, listen up: You bear responsibility for the election of Donald Trump. It’s because of smug, liberal urbanites like you that we are in the mess we’re in.
That’s more or less the theme in Joan Williams’ new book, “White Working Class.” The professional elites (those whose household income is in the top 20 percent and have at least one college-educated family member), Williams argues, not only fail to understand the economic plight of the working class but often treat its members with condescension. And that “class cluelessness” is what fueled resentment and the white flight to Trump.
