Basement-dwelling baristas of the world unite! You have nothing to lose but your “I’m With Her” signs. “Bernie Sanders is the real deal,” you thought, but Clinton just thought you hopelessly naive, underemployed at best with few prospects, and oppressed by Obamacare premiums that no one expected to have to pay. You, said Clinton, wanted free stuff. You, said Clinton — in so many, many words — are not so bright.

Thus in the release of another fundraiser tape did Clinton’s and elite media’s forced march through beauty pageants past get derailed. The Washington Free Beacon’s Lachlan Markay was the first to write a story on the leaked tape, but only on Saturday morning has transcripts begun to circulate, and when I appeared on Joy Reid’s show on MSNBC that morning, news of the tape seemed to take her by surprise. (The entire clip from the Feb. 16, 2016 Clinton fundraising remarks is here.)