How does a guy like Clarence Thomas fit in with your take?
Or Newt Gingrich?
Or Dennis Hastert?
Or Sarah Palin?
Or J. B. Pritzker?
The traditional old school. rich Republicans would all be moderate Democrats if they were alive today. Guys like Nelson Rockefeller...
People don’t call them hypocrites because they worked hard and got rich and own high end homes, they call them hypocrites because they got rich by being public servants that campaigned as regular people trying to help the poor and marginalized.
Politics is kind of like NIL money. Pay someone to work in your favor but disguise it as book deals or public speaking engagements to make it more palatable to the public.
Hard to believe, having watched the ecstacy of the 2008 Change campaign, that Obama’s legacy would end up being “rich guy who doesn’t mind paying taxes to benefit the economy”
They are the elite now. It’s not that hard to understand.