Editing Limousine liberal (section)

==Later use==

''[[The New York Observer]]'' applied the term to [[2008 Democratic Party presidential primaries|2008 Democratic presidential candidate]] [[John Edwards]] who paid $400 ({{Inflation|US|400|2007|fmt=eq|r=-1}}) for a haircut and, according to the newspaper, "lectures about poverty while living in gated opulence".<ref>{{cite news |last1=Kornacki |first1=Steve |title=Is Edwards An Easy Mark? |url=http://www.observer.com/2007/edwards-easy-mark |access-date=February 7, 2021 |work=[[The New York Observer]] |date=May 28, 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080107124004/http://www.observer.com/2007/edwards-easy-mark |archive-date=January 7, 2008}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|author=Steve Fraser|title=The Limousine Liberal: How an Incendiary Image United the Right and Fractured America|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cpzSDQAAQBAJ&pg=PA4|year=2016|publisher=Basic Books|page=4|isbn=9780465055661 }}</ref> 

Civil rights leader [[Al Sharpton]] used the term ''latte liberal'' to criticize (mostly white and high-income) left-leaning people "sit[ing] around [[the Hamptons]]" who advocated for the [[defund the police]] movement and ignored the concerns of African-Americans that suffer under high crime rates and rely on a strong police force.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://thehill.com/homenews/media/515448-msnbcs-sharpton-defunding-police-something-a-latte-liberal-may-go-for|title=MSNBC's Sharpton: Defunding police 'something a latte liberal may go for'|access-date=December 7, 2021|date=September 8, 2020|work=[[The Hill (newspaper)|The Hill]]|author=Joe Concha}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.thedailybeast.com/al-sharpton-defund-the-police-is-just-something-latte-liberals-support|title=Al Sharpton: Defund the Police Is Just Something 'Latte Liberals' Support|access-date=December 7, 2021|date=September 8, 2020|work=[[The Daily Beast]]|author=Justin Baragona}}</ref><ref name="Cuza 2020">{{cite web | last=Cuza | first=Bobby | title=Black Council Members Push Back Against Protester Budget Criticism | website=Spectrum News NY1 &#124; New York City | date=July 1, 2020 | url=https://www.ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/news/2020/07/02/council-members-allege-outside-agitation | access-date=December 28, 2020|quote=My working-class people, my homeowners, my tenants, my neighbors—they are not out there screaming and yelling, because they have to work.}}</ref>