LOFTUS: Who Knew Liberal Elites Could Make Themselves More Out-Of-Touch With Middle America

Who knew that elite liberals could actually make themselves more out-of-touch with Middle America …

But it’s possible, especially during a Trump presidency. In fact, maybe it shouldn’t come as a surprise.

On Monday night, elites will gather at the Met Gala, the annual high-fashion festival widely regarded as the world’s most glamorous fashion event. As is custom, they will celebrate themselves by wearing hideous clothing, and virtue-signal to the rest of us peons that they are morally, intellectually, and aesthetically superior. (Subscribe to MR. RIGHT, a weekly newsletter about modern masculinity)

Much to our amusement, this year is going to be heavy on virtue-signaling, precisely because Trump is president.

According to The New York Times, the Met Gala’s show will be “devoted for the first time entirely to designers of color,”  focusing “on the way Black men have used fashion as a tool of self-actualization, revolution and subversion throughout American history and the Black diaspora” and what that means in the second Trump era. The event will also showcase “black dandyism,” the long tradition of black men wearing extremely flamboyant clothing as a sign of pride.

The Times even noted that the gala “has been criticized as a tone-deaf display of privilege and fashion absurdity — which it is, of course — while also describing this year’s program as “the resistance.”

Got it.

“Suddenly the Met, one of the world’s wealthiest and most established museums, has begun to look like the resistance. And the gala, which in recent years has been criticized as a tone-deaf display of privilege and fashion absurdity, is being seen as what Brandice Daniel, the founder of Harlem’s Fashion Row, a platform created to support designers of color, called a display of ‘allyship,’” the outlet reported.

Yes, what better way to make an absurdly ritzy event more down-to-earth than by turning it into a DEI circle jerk? If you thought Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s “Tax The Rich” dress was bad, just wait until you see the dress that reads, “Send Elon To Mars,” or “Bring Kilmar Home.”

At the end of the day, though, no one truly cares about fashion and aesthetics. If anything, the Met Gala exists solely to remind society that our elites are gauche and more out-of-touch than ever. Nothing will change that, most especially a night dedicated to DEI.

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