Jack Kemp

From the Page Six gossip section of the NY Post...

http://pagesix.com/2016/11/12/why-celebrity-endorsements-didnt-help-hillary-at-all/?_ga=1.98572702.1878641660.1478944719
Why celebrity endorsements didn’t help Hillary at all
By Maureen Callahan
November 12, 2016

QUOTED CONCLUDING SECTION:

"We’re more socially isolated than ever,” Vance wrote in "Hillbilly Elegy.” "Not having a job is stressful, and not having enough money to live on is even more so.”

Even Bill Maher, hardly a friend to the GOP, conceded as much on his post-election show on Friday. Noting that no amount of money or celebrity endorsements matter, he said, "The Democratic party . . . lost the white working man. That’s what they used to have. And they made the white working man feel like, ‘Your problems aren’t real.’ Democrats, to a lot of Americans, have become a boutique party of fake outrage and social engineering. And they’re not entirely wrong about that.”

If only those super-vocal A-list celebrities who supported Clinton had such a reckoning — or even took their cues from President Obama, who urged the nation to root for Trump’s success. Instead, they continued throwing public temper tantrums. Alec Baldwin said he’d probably never play Trump on "SNL” again. Lena Dunham mocked those who called her bluff about moving to Canada if Trump won. "Stay busy in your new regime,” she posted. Schumer, who earned $17 million last year, posted that anyone expecting her to move to London, as she promised, "is just as disgusting as anyone who voted” for Trump.

Yet the woman who brought the plight of the white working class into American living rooms two decades ago is a Trump supporter. In a tweet Friday night, Roseanne Barr called the anti-Trump movement "classist assholes” and added: "Whoever thought they would hear Republicans calling Democrats ‘the elites?’”

It turns out a C-list reality TV star — who has no A-list friends — understood that best of all.

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