ANALYSIS: TRUE.

The problem is, looking down on fellow Americans is one of the major attractions of gentry liberalism. Take that away, and what have you got?

THAT’S BECAUSE PALESTINIAN LEADERS HAVE VERY LITTLE INTEREST IN EITHER PEACE OR PROSPERITY FOR THEIR PEOPLE: Palestinian leaders say U.S. “Peace to Prosperity” summit slights them.

ORGANIZED LABOR LOSES IT:

This week, the AFL-CIO promoted a video produced by “Means TV,” which bills itself as “the first anti-capitalist worker-owned streaming platform,” featuring a self-described Marxist arguing that the American middle class had developed a false consciousness. “Class is actually determined by a person’s relationship to or ownership of the means of production,” the agitator said. The very idea of a middle class is supposedly a “myth” that obscure the realities of the “conflict between workers and the owners of society.”

The post-millennial intern manning the AFL-CIO’s Twitter account may not realize it, but this kind of unreconstructed 19th-century revolutionary socialist dogma was once anathema to American organized labor leaders. The labor movement in the United States was once thoroughly infiltrated by the Soviet Union, and it was only through the coordinated exertions of the Democratic Party and labor’s leaders that those elements were isolated and, eventually, purged.

Related: The AFL-CIO’s Daft Marxism.

The Left has in recent years shifted its emphasis from the troubles of the poor to the troubles of the middle class, for obvious reasons: The Democratic party has become a middle-class party, one that is dominated by college-educated white professionals in relatively affluent urban centers rather than the “farmer-labor” party of a generation ago, the agricultural communities having gone solidly Republican, a fact that would have mystified members of my grandfather’s generation, when the socioeconomic poles of the parties were roughly reversed. (The Republican march through the South, notably, began in the relatively affluent and educated suburbs; the Democrats are now doing something very similar in places such as Texas and Georgia.) For this reason, the Democrats have a heavy investment in convincing the middle class that it is miserable, that it is the victim of Republicans, that it is a victim of Wall Street (which is politically dominated by Democrats, but never mind), or — in the silly Marxist analysis — that it does not exist, that it has had the wool of false consciousness pulled over its eyes.

If the plight of the middle class under capitalism seems to you unbearable, you should consider what has happened to the working class under Marxism, if only for comparison. “Build the Wall!” was a socialist program long before it was Trump’s.

Meanwhile, Bernie Sanders was on this week’s Meet the Press, and rather than grill him on his background, “Chuck Todd Warns Bernie ‘The Right’s Gonna Hammer and Sickle You to Death.’”

But first, Get To Know Sanders, in His Own Words: “What prompts this rumination is the extraordinary interview the New York Times issued today with the Socialist senator. If it doesn’t scupper his chances at winning the presidency, we don’t know what will. It recounts Mr. Sanders currying favor with the Soviets and their hench-regimes in our hemisphere. ‘I did my best to stop American foreign policy,’ the Times quotes the senator as saying.”

NPR: With New Style And Graphics, North Korea Gives Propaganda A Makeover.

There’s an evening show on North Korea’s state TV that brings soldiers news from their hometowns.

Last September, the show on the regime-run Korean Central Television, or KCTV, was interrupted for an urgent update.

“Another piece of news from our families on the home front, just in from the Kangson steel factory,” an announcer says. “Soldiers from Kangson will be happy to hear that,” the anchor replies, beaming.

The update: A soldier’s father says he and fellow factory workers are so motivated, they will beat production targets by 50%.

The spirited labor message is decades old. But the presentation, including the staged interruption, hints at a change in propaganda tactics.

The news presenters are fresh-faced. Their attire is business casual. Their dialogue is chatty. You might almost think it’s a South Korean show.

Except for the actual content and that you’re watching it on a TV with one channel.

SARAH HOYT: Above Our Own Dignity.

AL JAZEERA SUSPENDS TWO JOURNALISTS FOR QUESTIONING THE HOLOCAUST: Network takes down AJ+ Arabic content after Friday video questioned number of Jews killed in the Holocaust and claimed Jewish organizations seek to manipulate suffering to gain attention.

Related: Illan Omar Re-Tweets Publication That Claimed the Holocaust Was ‘Different from How the Jews Tell It.’

More: Al Jazeera Gets Twitter To Silence Critics Of Its Video Implying Jews Benefited From Holocaust.

WELL, THE CRAZIER THE LEFT GETS, THE EASIER IT BECOMES FOR HIM: President Trump Can Win On Race.

CULTURE OF CORRUPTION: Top Democrat’s wife may have gained ‘illegal private benefit’ from his committee activities.

UGH: Switzerland Welcomes Gun Control, Future Terrorism Wave.

ADVICE FROM DONALD TRUMP: “Please be sure that you are treated fairly.”

MINNESOTA NICE: Mob with Hammers Descends on Minneapolis East Bank LRT Patrons. “A mob of eight to 10 males wielding hammers descended upon bystanders at the East Bank Light Rail station on Friday night injuring several, according to recorded police dispatch audio.”

“Males.” They were Somali teens, showing their gratitude to the nation that gave them refuge.

AT AMAZON, save on Men’s Shoes.

WHY DOES BERNIE SANDERS HATE POOR URBAN KIDS: Bernie Sanders Wants to Destroy the Best Schools Poor Urban Kids Have.

ROGER KIMBALL: Justin Amash’s last stand. Where will the rebellious representative be come 2020?

OPEN THREAD: The election of Donald Trump instead of Hillary Clinton is support for the notion that God looks after fools, drunkards, and the United States of America. Discuss.

GET WOKE, GO BROKE: ESPN President: ‘Our Fans Do Not Want Us to Cover Politics.’

JOHN HINDERAKER: Emails Show Deep State Conspiring Against Trump.

OH, THAT LIBERAL FASCISM: The Nation Magazine Claims We Should End Capitalism By Destroying The Family.

I thought that MSNBC had the exclusive on that aspect of leftism.

UPDATE: Shot and chaser from Iowahawk:

2020 PREVIEW? How climate change decided Australia’s election:

Labor’s vote collapsed in working class areas, particularly in the state of Queensland, despite the party’s redistributive and populist economic agenda. This demonstrates a backlash from the continuing culture war that has waged for the past two decades in the country, which has helped hollow out Labor’s traditional base.

The best example of this is on the issue of climate change and the environment. Labor promised a marked increase in renewable energy usage over the next decade, which Queensland voters translated into fewer jobs for the state’s large coal industry – and higher power prices. The idea of a party of inner-city elites taking away their communities’ jobs was too much to bear for many.

[Scott] Morrison’s election victory will set the course for the nation’s politics for years to come. It will be a long time before a political party takes an ambitious policy agenda to the electorate for fear it will be punished like Labor was on Saturday.

Tim Blair spots “Morrison’s Election Weapon: The Quiet Australians.”

Climate change as an issue may excite many in Canberra, but ordinary Australians take rather more seriously continuing four-figure power bills.

Those ordinary Australians now have a champion in Scott Morrison, whose victory speech celebrated mainstream values.

“To start a family, to buy a home, to work hard and provide the best you can for your kids,” the PM said.

“To save your retirement. And to ensure that when you’re in your retirement, that you can enjoy it because you’ve worked hard for it.

Contrast that with the eco-doomsday commencement speech that Apple CEO Tim Cook gave to the graduates of Tulane on Saturday:

In some important ways, my generation has failed you,” Cook said. “We spent too much time debating, too focused on the fight and not enough on progress.”

“You don’t need to look far to find an example of that failure,” he continued, pointing to an example that no one understands better than those living in the natural disaster-dogged New Orleans: climate change.

Curiously though, Cook likely isn’t cutting back on producing devices encased in plastics, and powered by electricity, or his private jet.

ANALOG DRIVING EXPERIENCES ARE NOW A LUXURY FOR WHICH YOU PAY EXTRA. “We have arrived at the tipping point. That moment in time when all things digital has become all things ordinary. Today you’re vastly more likely to tap an app than to nudge a gearshift into the next gear. Ones and zeros mediate most of what we hear, see, and touch. Digital is boring. And now analog is exotic, romantic, and glamorous. Physical, often mechanical, engagement has become a luxury for the rich. . . . As analog experiences become rarer, they develop a mystique: the allure that comes with the difficulty of acquisition. They become glamorous.”

Plus: “Horses were ordinary beasts of burden for centuries. Now they’re, for the most part, the playthings of the wealthy. Same thing.”

THE POLITICAL CLIMATE WAS NOT AS PREDICTED: It Was Supposed to Be Australia’s Climate Change Election. What Happened?

In some ways it was a clash of cultures as well as political views.

“I feel like there’s quite a lot of scorn about the way Queenslanders feel about environmental issues, and that doesn’t help,” said Susan Harris-Rimmer, a law professor at Griffith University in Queensland. “The predominant Queensland characteristic is pride and you can’t pour scorn on them.”

She said doing so was a strategic mistake for politicians comparable to Hillary Clinton’s description of some Donald Trump supporters as “deplorables” during the 2016 United States presidential election.

“You can’t trigger the pride response,” Ms. Harris-Rimmer said.

But looking down on the deplorables is one of the chief rewards of being among the woke elite.

STACY MCCAIN: Solipsism and Feminist Rage Syndrome.

YOUR DAILY TREACHER: Lefties Sure Do Love Political Violence.

AND YET HE WAS ELECTED TO BE THEIR MISERABLY FAILED MAYOR: New Yorkers of all political stripes unify in distaste for Mayor Bill de Blasio’s ‘completely out of touch’ 2020 run.

CHANGE: Texas Poised To Ban All Red Light Cameras.