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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDana Milbank: Ivy League Republicans' phony rebellion against the 'elites'
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Sen. Tom Cotton is what you might call a counterfeit commoner.
The dour Arkansas Republican announced with indignation at this weeks Supreme Court confirmation hearings that he doesnt want a justice who follows the views of the legal elite. He later complained that a bunch of elite lawyers such as nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson think that sentences for child pornography are too harsh. I dont and I bet a lot of normal Americans dont, either.
And who is this normal American decrying the legal elite? Why, hes a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School, a former clerk on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit and a former associate at two Washington-insider law firms who now sits on the Judiciary Committee of the U.S. Senate.
Hes part of a Republican Party of 2022 that has flipped the script on populism: The gentry are revolting.
At the same hearings this week, Sen. John Neely Kennedy (R-La.) decried a managerial elite of media, academics, bureaucrats and corporations. This cabal think they are smarter and more virtuous than the American people, argued Kennedy, whose bio says he has a degree with first class honors from Oxford University (Magdalen College). This man of the people Phi Beta Kappa at Vanderbilt, executive editor of the law review at the University of Virginia and a member of something called the Order of the Coif has been heard denouncing the goats-milk-latte-drinkin, avocado-toast-eating insiders elite.
Also on the dais during the proceedings: Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.), a graduate of Princeton and Harvard Law who loves to inveigh against the coastal elites, and Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.), a former Supreme Court clerk out of Stanford University and Yale Law School who fancies himself standing with the proletariat in the great divide between the leadership elite and the great and broad middle of our society.
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Dana Milbank: Ivy League Republicans' phony rebellion against the 'elites' (Original Post)
Nevilledog
Mar 2022
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ymetca
(1,182 posts)1. Ah yes..
For the Art of Oratory (well taught at such schools) purveys the Feast of Villainy.
usonian
(9,424 posts)2. Do you see a pattern?
Not white.
Not male.
Not CINO. (Christian in name only)
Ergo, not "normal American"
WCM/WCN are the only "normal Americans"
and they are revolting (adj.)
Skittles
(152,964 posts)3. the worst is Kennedy with his phony Foghorn Leghorn schtick
it shows just how gullible and easily manipulated the repuke base is
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Justin Horwitz
@JustinAHorwitz
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Mar 23, 2022
FUN FACT: John Kennedy created a fake southern accent when he switched to the GOP and ran for Senate of Louisiana. He literally used to be a Democrat without the accent.
Justin Horwitz
@JustinAHorwitz
Heres a video documenting Kennedys fake accent that his opponent, @GaryChambersJr made. Give it a RT and Gary a follow.
Watch on Twitter
3:28 PM · Mar 23, 2022
Justin Horwitz
@JustinAHorwitz
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Mar 23, 2022
FUN FACT: John Kennedy created a fake southern accent when he switched to the GOP and ran for Senate of Louisiana. He literally used to be a Democrat without the accent.
Justin Horwitz
@JustinAHorwitz
Heres a video documenting Kennedys fake accent that his opponent, @GaryChambersJr made. Give it a RT and Gary a follow.
Watch on Twitter
3:28 PM · Mar 23, 2022
Skittles
(152,964 posts)5. wow, just wow
I had always known it was phony even without proof but.....WTF. That is a great ad.