Even after a Trump trouncing, the Democrats refuse to learn lessons

The left’s autopsy of its very predictable electoral defeat has become a comedy show.Joe Scarborough is on bended knee, licking the boots of an incoming president he has likened to Hitler.

Nancy Pelosi, who first defended Biden’s mental capacity before coldly whacking him, is now blaming him for Kamala Harris’s loss.Activist “journalists” claim that Harris ran a “perfect” campaign and blame voters “who gave up on democracy.”The self-preening typifies much of what’s wrong with the contemporary American left.

It’s a culture driven by its own self-exaltation and social credit scores rather than self-examination.Moral condescension and virtue signaling are its chief currency.

Sociologist Musa al-Gharbi’s new book on the hypocrisy of elites, “We Have Never Been Woke,” captures this bonfire of the vanities.Using immigration as an example, he points to the self-dealing of elites who “have disposable servants who will clean your house, watch your kids, walk your dogs, deliver prepared meals to you” but mask their avarice in sanctimonious virtue.

Meanwhile, the migrant waves over-saturate labor markets, steal working-class jobs and lower pay scales.For working Americans, this wealth transfer is yet another assault by the same liberal elites who drove the neoliberal consensus on free trade that enriched themselves — all while hollowing out working-class communities and transferring jobs abroad through unfair trade laws.

Most workers lost real wages under the Biden administration.The de rigueur of the left is to cry bigotry when the working class and others object to this self-dealing.The college educateds get fat while expressing moral condescension towards anyone that questions their “multiculturalism over nation” pathos or their victimhood obsessions.

Pretty clever gig if you can get it.But al-Gharbi drills down on exactly why the virtue signaling is so important to elites.In a world where universities “overproduce” the shee...