Trustfunder left

Michael Barone uncovers a new segment of the electorate: Lefty Americans who can afford not to work. San Francisco and New York are among the residences of choice for the trustfunders, Heavy concentrations are also found in wealthy resort areas in the Rocky Mountain states and the East Coast.

Their loyalties, as Samuel Huntington explains in "Who Are We?," are not national, but transnational -- they are citizens of the world with contempt for those who feel chills up their spines when they hear "The Star Spangled Banner." They are taught to have contempt for the economic contribution they make to their country as investors and to feel guilty if they make no other contribution. Their penance is that they must vote left.

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The good news for Democrats is that they have found a new source of votes and money. The bad news is that an important part of their core constituency has the characteristic that the British Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin ascribed to the press, "power without responsibility, the prerogative of the harlot throughout the ages."