Middle class acceptability is a prerequisite for political success, and for the moment, for many of those seeking election on a patriotic platform, that ingredient is almost entirely lacking.
For all the left talk about “privilege”, their attitudes on core issues are increasingly those of the privileged, not the deprived.
The middle class in Ireland have not been convinced of the need for change.
And indeed, people who would turn their faces away aghast from such rhetoric, coming from an angry truck driver with a megaphone, will instead nod soberly when it comes from a genteel columnist
And initially denied it when caught.
Much is being made here of Biden being a “friend indeed to Ireland.” Actually if you examine these paeans what you generally find is that the purveyor of this means that he will be a friend to their friends, and unlike Trump, knows some mediocre poet who is also their chum. Real cosmopolitans are our […]