Sentences with phrase «coastal elites»

Hoover Institution senior fellow Victor Davis Hanson, who lives on a family farm near Fresno, writes extensively about the devolution of the Central Valley's economy and cultural morality into what he calls a «pre-modern» state — to the utter indifference of coastal elites living a mere hundred miles away.

As Politico's Jack Shafer notes, «The Florida jury that found in Hogan's favor thought it was delivering a rebuke to morally reprobate coastal elites on behalf of a hometown hero.

Not a sense of aggrieved offense by coastal elites at the uncompromising game of the American interior.

Domestic slavery practised by the educated African coastal elites (as well as interior traditional rulers) in Sierra Leone was abolished in 1928.

But if any of these hand - wringing coastal elites bothered to take a short boat ride, they'd find themselves in a county with a five - to - three Democratic enrollment advantage that Trump won with nearly 60 percent of the vote.

I don't really buy the «Hollywood coastal elites» stereotype, if only because everyone in Hollywood is from everywhere else, but I do wonder how many of these voting groups are thinking about it as a depiction of a place that's fraught with controversy, both with police violence in Ferguson and controversies about tearing down Confederate statues.

Oops, there go those brainy coastal elites again.

The debate over climate and energy policy has often proceeded as if it is orthogonal to that larger progressive struggle, as if a «clean environment» is kind of boutique concern of coastal elites.

Above the Law says both are solid conservatives, they are not coastal elites (Pryor is from Alabama and Sykes is from Wisconsin, and neither went to a top - 14 law school), and they have two powerful backers.

The disconnect between Trump voters and «coastal elite» technology companies has highlighted that for all their election - season bluster, the industry has plenty of work to do on diversity, gender equity, and poverty within its own ranks.

Thank goodness this Ivy League, Wharton School NY billionaire isn't one of the coastal elites.

Since the election there's been a lot of jawing in Manhattan cable news studios about Trump's surprising performance in once solid - blue counties of the old industrial Midwest, and plenty of fretting about how «coastal elites» have lost touch with the American core.

To do so, we must stop with the labels — deplorables, snowflakes, coastal elites — and unite in the human spirit.

Aaron Sorkin, who received the Paddy Chayefsky Laurel Award for Television Writing Achievement, derided the suggestion that «coastal elites» in Hollywood and New York are out of touch and said repeatedly that it is Trump who is actually out of touch.

The phrases are both booby traps — labels that, when applied to culture, seek to impose a divide between art that is oblivious and art that is aware, or between movies that are about and for honest plain - spoken Americans (current example: Patriots Day) and movies that are for «coastal elites» who think rural white dudes are scary as hell (I don't know... Nocturnal Animals?

Problem is... she suffers from the same snotty attitude that ALL of Hollywood has for ANY American who isn't part of that coastal elite... she figured she could just run roughshod over her competing «just» indie authors and we'd take it.