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JBS's avatar

I can identify with JD. I grew up in a failing steel town in Ohio, probably one or two rungs above the socioeconomic status that he had. I’m from a stable family, but it was definitely a lower middle class with two parents who didn’t graduate from college. Like him, I attended an Ivy League law school, have held an important (although not elected) position in the federal government, and now make money that is beyond my wildest dreams. And I will achieve a degree of generational wealth for my family.

In doing this, I have not joined any high society clubs, sought the favor of senators, former cabinet secretaries, lobbyists, elite opinion makers etc. I am just damn good at what I do so and have succeeded based on merit (and with help from the Mrs.).

I have run from those emoluments because they make for a caged life—to be part of the elite, you have to do the elite things all the time. Instead, I bought several acres on a hill in rural West Virginia and built my own getaway house—an escape from the madness that surrounds DC (where I live and work).

WV is from where most of my family originally hails; they came to Ohio bc steel mills were nicer workplaces than coal mines. So in some ways, I have returned to my ancestral homeland, just as much as JD yearns to do someday, according to his acceptance speech. I really think he is the future of the GOO, and I hope it proves out in November.

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Richard's avatar

Leftist media and Democrats would have gone crazy no matter who Trump picked. What was music to my ears was Wall Street wailing. Too long has the Republican party been in thrall to corporate interests.

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