Absolutely. Just like my grandparents were immigrants. My father went to night school and got a 4-year degree from a commuter school at night.
His sons went to universities for their degrees. I’m a mildly successful businessman and investor. My sons go to Harvard. Their vistas, I can’t even imagine.
It’s the American way. Each generation builds on the one before. trump has done that very successfully. And what he will pass down to the next children is very good .
But he is not “self-made.” He is a son of privilege. He has built moderately successful on that privilege. He is not some super genius businessman, some galactic-sized negotiator or anything like that. He’s a good son. An American story. But not “self-made.”
It would be nice if he showed the proper humility that is his due.
Maybe the vice here, to the extent there is vice, is a pan-American flaw.
Face it, a lot of us more or less like the idea of an America that has some bragging rights.
Where are we ourselves with respect to God, before we can talk about wanting others to be humble? Maybe Trump is the only way God can talk to a proud country and get it to start doing something sensible.