Opinion: Ivy League Republicans' phony rebellion against the 'elites'

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Sen. Tom Cotton is what you might call a counterfeit commoner.

The dour Arkansas Republican announced with indignation at this week’s Supreme Court confirmation hearings that he doesn’t 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 don’t and I bet a lot of normal Americans don’t, either.”

And who is this “normal American” decrying the “legal elite”? Why, he’s 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.

He’s part of a Republican Party of 2022 that has flipped the script on populism: The gentry are revolting.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/03/25/republicans-anti-elite-hypocrisy-tom-cotton/

[Redleg]

1. They sure are revolting...

... and deplorable. It amazes me that people can't see through this phony populism. The GOP hasn't cared one whit about working people since after Abraham Lincoln left office. But the GOP does know that God, Guns, and Bigotry are the opiate of the masses.

On edit: I guess I shouldn't have said when Abe Lincoln left office since he didn't leave by choice or naturally through legitimate means.

[Beartracks]

2. The GOP is quick to say they are "the party of Lincoln," but they bear much more. ..

... resemblance to Lincoln's killer.

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