The West Wing
Since you mention Billy Ray Cyrus, it doesn't get more smug than that type of country music, especially when it gets patriotic. The point is the left never cornered the market on smug. Smug is in the 'people suck' category - it's taking pleasure in a vision of superiority, however fleeting or insecure.
Also smug:
Most of the people who voted in the presidential election would (I assume) qualify as bourgeois. I read that the average (or maybe it was the median) income of Trump voters was higher. Both sides felt smug for different reasons. One side's reasons were far more justified. I don't think it can be overemphasized that when the left is accused of smugness, that accusation is instantly made ridiculous by the fact of Trump.
It wasn't a close contest in terms of qualifications, competence, and intelligence. It was made into a close contest on ethics, but that was mainly b.s. And people are still more convinced by the imperative of an even contest than by the notion that asymmetry could obtain to the degree that it did.
Since you mention Billy Ray Cyrus, it doesn't get more smug than that type of country music, especially when it gets patriotic. The point is the left never cornered the market on smug. Smug is in the 'people suck' category - it's taking pleasure in a vision of superiority, however fleeting or insecure.
Also smug:
Most of the people who voted in the presidential election would (I assume) qualify as bourgeois. I read that the average (or maybe it was the median) income of Trump voters was higher. Both sides felt smug for different reasons. One side's reasons were far more justified. I don't think it can be overemphasized that when the left is accused of smugness, that accusation is instantly made ridiculous by the fact of Trump.
It wasn't a close contest in terms of qualifications, competence, and intelligence. It was made into a close contest on ethics, but that was mainly b.s. And people are still more convinced by the imperative of an even contest than by the notion that asymmetry could obtain to the degree that it did.
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