Aaron Sorkin, best known as the guy whose dialogue you hated on that show you pretended to watch because it had a lot of awards, has courageously come out in defense of coastal elites at an award show filled with coastal elites.
"We’ve been told that as coastal elites we’re something less than real Americans and that we’re out of touch. If you find it mind-boggling that living and working in the two largest cities in America makes you less than a real American, you are not the one who’s out of touch," Sorkin said.
I think it's great that Sorkin decided to deliver one of his own monologues. The trouble with it though is that it might work better coming from Martin Sheen than from an addled rich screenwriter with no particular talent except having characters speak so quickly that you can't follow what they're saying.
The Founders thought that urban concentrations of power were dangerous. Sorkin probably thinks that they were out of touch. And their cities were a whole lot smaller.
Yes, it's entirely possible to live in New York and Los Angeles and be out of touch with the rest of the country. Not only is it possible, but it's highly likely because that's how concentrated urban environments that are practically city states work.
But Sorkin doesn't just live in a big city. He inhabits a small bubble of power and privilege making him out of touch with even 99 percent of the people in the city around him.
And that's what motivated him to deliver this rant in front of a bunch of equally out of touch people at an awards show of the out of touch... while claiming that President Trump and the rest of the country are out of touch.