The unbearable lightness of white college Democrats

Eighty-five percent of counties with a Whole Foods store voted for Joe Biden. That factoid, relayed by the Cook Political Report’s David Wasserman, tells you something important about the election — and about today’s Democratic Party.

“The Democracy,” as it was called in the 19th century, long thought of itself as the party of the people, the defender of the little guy, the side that stood up for those not able to stand up for themselves.