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Anonymous wrote:Republicans tend to be very sensitive about their lack of intellectual heft and pedigree. So there's effectively a pipeline to take mediocre young Republicans in the Ivy League and shepherd them into positions of prominence - JD Vance (Yale Law), Ron DeSantis (Harvard Law), Rafael Cruz (Harvard Law), Joshua Hawley (Yale Law), and a couple of others. These are fairly unremarkable men that have all the doors opened for them, from the Federalist Society to prestigious clerkships to introductions to prominent billionaires like Peter Thiel. Even introductions to suitable women who work for Big Law (Vance) or Goldman Sachs (Cruz). It's like the glided into their positions, but they were selected by the moneyed conservatives to be their vehicles and mediums for power - Mercer, Adelson, Walton, Griffin, Schwarmann and so on. Vance is clearly owned, and that's how one should regard him.
Thank you for your excellent post. I’ve wondered why people like these, perhaps eager for some stamps of approval, sought out these specific university environments — only to complain publicly about them because they themselves were bad fits for the very environments that they so eagerly chose.