Extremely online wealthy overeducated white urban liberal professionals also eat Big Macs, to be fair, but only under strict circumstances. They do so furtively and shamefully, McDonalds being a sign of poor character and lax self-discipline. It calls into question one's education and upbringing, and thus brings dishonour upon the family. It transgresses the Protestant work ethic.
However, one may consume McDonalds with a friend - as a trust exercise/mutually assured destruction pact in the manner of Chinese businessmen
sniffing ketamine, swapping wives, and fưcking whores. Of course, one must first establish, at great length, that one is indulging a very guilty pleasure, and preferably only doing so while drunk.
Conversely, non-extremely online non-wealthy non-overeducated white-and-non-white non-urban non-liberal non-professionals do not exclusively eat Big Macs, but when they do, they are likely unaware that it is something their self-proclaimed betters think they should ashamed of.
And in truth,
McDonalds performs an important role providing affordable community space, at a time when the public sphere is under attack not least from extremely online wealthy overeducated white urban liberal professionals. Obviously, it is very sad that it has come to this.
Non-extremely online non-wealthy non-overeducated white-and-non-white non-urban non-liberal non-professionals are mostly indifferent in principle to the idea of serving Big Macs in the White House; what arouses their ire is when extremely online wealthy overeducated white urban liberal professionals have a collective conniption fit over Big Macs, invoking Abraham Lincoln, Atticus Finch, hastily Googled sports nutrition Facts, and the West Wing, at which point ordinary people rightly sense that they are being sneered at by unconsciously elitist snobs.
Bloomberg performing a twitter feud with Trump over steak preparation methods is very much politics as usual in the United States: a symbiotic culture war which distracts voters long enough to allow both Parties to keeping cashing them cheques in exchange for enforcing an unpopular plutocratic economic consensus.
Thankfully, for the first time in living memory, other options are available.
