I bother because Americans in general and conservatives in particular used to admire and respect achievement. Leftists, however, HATE personal achievement. Does, ‘You didn’t build that,’ ring a bell?
So here’s this person who by hard work has become one of the best in the world at what he does, and you keep sputtering, ‘elitist!’.
So ‘elitist’ is now the word conservatives use to describe exceptional personal achievement?
I really encourage you to read this fine American’s biography since his birth in 1984 and what he’s done that didn’t involve ‘swimming’.....take a look at his service, his self-sacrifice with no rewards and all the other attributes one might attach to earning respect for achievement. A multi-millionaire who has ‘served’ his country wholly worthy of our ignorant idolization. Yessirreee... we can be certainly proud at all that.