It's especially relevant that they both went to the same elite feeder prep school because that culture is even more insular than Yale/Harvard. Those kids are cultivated from birth to ascend to power. They're living embodiments of the lie of meritocracyhttps://twitter.com/mtracey/status/1016547809842089984 …
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It shows how infinitely flexible the notion of "populism" is that people who ascribe to that label can stand up and celebrate the nomination of a Bush-era creature of the DC legal establishment whose life trajectory has exactly nothing in common with the average citizen
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They celebrate it because they've been taught that the sacred Supreme Court must only be accessible to an infinitesimally tiny sliver of society, whose wisdom is inherently superior because they went to the finest schools and secured the finest clerkships. It's a lie
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LOL, what a joke. The Republican-controlled senate would have moved heaven and earth to make sure anyone he nominated got confirmed. His infatuation with people who are "smart" in the sense of having the correct elite credentials is what led to this choice.
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