Tom Ellsworth
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Podcast Appearances
You can say what you will about Bernie Sanders.
And we've all joked about him.
I've joked about him pretty much.
It's fun.
But what I respected, what I respect about him is not his position.
But you have to respect an opponent in the political stage.
And what was his message that carried so much young vote of this older senator?
Student loans.
Student loans were big.
People couldn't feel they could afford them.
Even though we say, you bought the car, you got the loan, that's what we said.
You bought the education, you got the loan.
They don't see the choices they made in there and the willing choice there.
They see expensive student loan that the student loan processors and administrators were acting really badly.
Guess who surfed that wave?
Bernie.
Bernie surfed it, and he talked about...
Wiping out student loans and making education free.
And that resonated to people in the point of education.
Now we have someone even more charismatic, even more dynamic going deep into Trump country, into a county he carried by 60 points and carrying the mantle for data centers.