is he a RINO?
He isn't a bad fellow, but comes from an 'old money' family. My mother once worked for his mother. Their family fortune comes from the Gamble-Skogmo retail empire which had a chain of auto parts and variety stores in much of flyover country from the 1920s through the 1960s.
Parts were sold off to bigger retailers at opportune times and they invested their money very well. I even had a class with Doug in college. Smart young man, quite down-to-earth at the time.
His mother bought him a promising software company with some of the family fortune. He built it into one of the leading accounting firms software programs (Great Plains) in the world and Bill Gates bought him out and made him a billionaire about the turn of the millennium.
Then it was off to a new career in politics. Remember, he is a billionaire, not a multi-billionaire in the mold of a Forbes or Bloomberg. I'm not sure he is devoted enough to the Davos crowd to earn their support, but he is allowed to hang around with them.