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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]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.       [/quote]

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.  [/quote]
True. They criticize the education and milieu and seem.to hold on harder to their origins. Steve Bannon is like this. He paints his lower middle class upbringing as idyllic. Why did you leave it behind then? Go be a postal worker and shut up. And the experience of moving class is not unique in the US. People don't have to completely disown their backgrounds either. I mean, most people find a happy medium. I always think they doth protest too much. It likely was not idyllic. I don't buy it.[/quote]

Bannon wasn’t LMC.  His father was a VP at Bell Atlantic but he came up through the ranks. His home on Noble Ave in Richmond would cost a few million if it were in Arlington. It’s big and old and stately. At least two of his brothers worked in the financial industry and seemed to do quite well.  The one that looks exactly like Steve just died in January.  They all went to Benedictine which is an old prestigious Catholic military prep school. [/quote]

A big old stately home in Detroit would also be worth millions in Arlington. But it’s not IN Arlington
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Richmond families that send their children to Benedictine aren't what I would consider LMC.  Not even close.
-Richmond native[/quote]

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