Patell and Waterman

Yeah, we could have just pointed you in the right direction, but that deserved to be retweeted in its entirety. Bookmark it.

39/P.S. Mike Pence would get booed at the VFW Hall in my neighborhood. Trust me. THE END

38/Stand up for your town & its values over/against Trumpism. Don’t let the demagogues or their dopey enablers talk shit.

37/Urbanities need to push back against the BS. Loud, aggressive civic pride should be the order of the day.

37/But cities are America's bastions of freedom & democracy & enlightenment & pluralism. We need cities now more than ever.

36/Cities have all kinds or problems. Chiefly inequality & racism. No good to replace myth of The Noble Hinterlander w/its opposite number.

35/Remember that the GOP are opportunistic city-lovers. When there’s terrorist attack they will press NYC to their heaving bosoms.

34/The electoral college disenfranchises urban voters. City-dwellers’ votes count less.

33/Where are the cris de coeur about the parasitic Heartland?

32/Cities carry a disproportionate federal tax burden.

31/As for the vaunted "patriotism" of middle-America: well, urbanites are quantitatively more patriotic.

30/The geographic divide is urban vs. suburban/exurban/rural. Not “coastal” vs. “heartland” or, G-d knows, “elite” vs. “real American.”

29/Btw nonsense about “coastal elites” is exploded by glance at voting map. Every major city blue. Urban counties in TX & GA among bluest.

28/The fact that journalists and even some academics are suckers for this con boggles the frickin’ mind.

27/Then there’s the Nixonian/Reaganian anti-black/Latino racism. “Their neighborhoods are hell”; “You will get shot”; etc.

26/The broadsides against “Urban elites,” the media, "political correctness," Wall Street, etc. of course carry ancient anti-Semitic echoes.

25/The Trumpian anti-urban playbook hits on two familiar fronts.

24/Of course this didn’t stop Jefferson (or Franklin, who voiced similar convictions) from living it up in the fleshpots of Paris.

23/Jefferson romanticized the ideal of an agrarian republic: “Those who labor the earth...the chosen people of God” etc. etc.