Freepers used to admire self-made men; now they want their presidents to be billionaires. Amazing.
What’s amazing is how ridiculous that statement is. DeSantis is a self-made man? What are you smoking? DeSantis is no more a self-made man than Joe Biden, Mitch McConnell, Chuck Schumer, or any other career politician. And your false choice between self-made men and billionaires is just that.
It used to be we judged a man on what he did with his life, not the circumstances he was born into. So Trump was born into a wealthy family. Big deal. Unlike a lot of trust fund babies, Trump took the leg up his family fortune gave him and did something with it, building his company far beyond what it ever was under his father.
As far as DeSantis being a self-made man, I’m surprised you were able to type that with a straight face. DeSantis had little money to speak of before he entered politics. Now he has a war-chest worth millions of dollars to spend on his campaign. Where do you think that money comes from? Unlike Trump, self-financing his campaign isn’t an option. And DeSantis can’t rely on small, individual donors to the degree Trump can. Your “self-made man” gets most of his campaign cash through wealthy donors and is more dependent on them than Trump has ever been.
Trump had potentially a big advantage in having plenty of his own money (if he used it - that is debateable). It was a great thing.
What I don’t like, and perhaps others here, is the hypocrisy. We don’t mind rich people, for sure. I don’t judge based on that. BUT FR used to parrot the “working-man’s” line that we were tired of these “rich” people who knew nothing about really regular life ever, much less being poor. Yes, Bush was included in that.
Along with that I saw plenty of spouting off on how they have to be MIL people; defending Bush because he “only” had NG service when Dems tried to attack that (despite Klintoon never serving either).
So basically we never hear these “principles” anymore since Trump. He was born with the silver spoon, and he never served in MIL. I’m sure there are many hypocrites here who are EverTrumpers who used to complain in the past that Joe Republican never had to scrape by, or never was in the MIL. We don’t hear it anymore.
DeSantis was in the Navy.