Dave Weigel
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Like, no, you wouldn't.
Obviously, there are going to be lots of Democrats who have much more.
I want to say traditional.
That's that would be a gaffe.
But the stories that are there a little bit more like guy you grew up with rather than son of Miraner.
He had some of the same crazy making ability as AOC because AOC grew up a little more poor than he did.
Have you noticed sometimes Republicans can't decide whether she's terrible because she was just used to be a bartender or she's terrible because whenever they mention the bartender thing, she's like rare rabbit in the briar patch.
She's lying to you.
She lived in a โ not in the Bronx but in a poor charter of Westchester County.
Whenever they start getting to those details, it's a waste of time because speaking of people who have not grown a lab, how is Donald Trump able to be a blue-collar billionaire when the many things that you read in the bulwark โ
he's doing to enrich himself.
Because I was at a presentation of some polling data a couple months ago, and one of the slides that stuck with me was just contrasting events and the success of Donald Trump going to a fake McDonald's, like a McDonald's that had been closed today just to have his campaign event added.
The memetic power of that, people saying, gosh, Donald Trump went to a fast food restaurant for five minutes and served fries, that's powerful.
It was obviously a response to Kamala Harris saying she'd worked at McDonald's and not really using it for anything.
We're all talking about advertisements and authenticity that's being packaged.
But it turns out you don't need to you don't need to prove like here is my resume.
And here is how I've I've never once gone on a liberal arts college campus.
You don't need to do all that.
You just like I honestly care about these people.