Perhaps he's symbolic of a liberal/elitism paradox: In both the UK and US, at least, people (tend to) tend to the left more as they get richer, and conversely those with comparably less wealth (material and educational) tend more towards a certain strain of right-wing thinking.
There's an interesting piece (http://www.lrb.co.uk/v28/n07/zize01_.html) in the LRB by Slavoj Zizek on this phenomenon, although his populist use of metaphors might disqualify him from truly belonging to the in-crowd.
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Date: 2006-04-02 04:42 pm (UTC)There's an interesting piece (http://www.lrb.co.uk/v28/n07/zize01_.html) in the LRB by Slavoj Zizek on this phenomenon, although his populist use of metaphors might disqualify him from truly belonging to the in-crowd.