The fact that he's an Ivy League graduate, and a techbro minion, and worked a half-assed critique of Trumpism into it was just like sprinkling catnip on top of the Fancy Feast.
They loved him, and elevated him, BECAUSE he's a class traitor, willing to affirm the idea that poverty is really the fault of the poor and capitalism works fine.
Period.
And the fact that not one person has bothered to say that, says a lot about the purposeful attempts to strangle class consciousness in American life