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He’s speaking truth to power.

What’s hard to understand about that?

[JBW1949]

It’s because they haven’t a clue what goes on outside the beltway...They haven’t a clue as to what the American people (the unwashed masses to them) want or think...

[going hot]

Insiders reading the wapo, and listening to each other, and think they are experiencing reality.

What they are hearing and reading are figments of some progressive socialist's imagination.

Now, the reality hits them upside the head, and they shake their head in disbelief.