“The tan, confident jock guys in high school who dated the really hot girls. You pretended not to care, as you sat veal-white under the flickering fluorescent library lights, fiercely underlining passages in Ayn Rand, Nietzsche, or Trotsky.”
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“The hedge fund managers and real estate magnates those same guys became, showing up at your ten-year reunion in their $1000 suits, the vulgarians. It didn’t bother you, though. You just sat with your friends from the school paper, ...”
This author has the social resentment part of Trump Derangement Syndrome nailed !
Trump is the guy who stuffed them into lockers. And, when they finally made it in the political / bureaucratic world, Trump comes along and shows that all their “learning”, and “experience”, and polls, focus groups, predictive analysis etc... is all futile against a guy who defies PC crap and tells it like it is !
Go Trump !
This writer is good... a rarity these days.