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This is a bad idea ( waves in the general direction of S. Huntington ) but it’s also a petulant one, born of frustration that a lower-case c conservative institution has not abandoned that conservatism and whole-heartedly embraced the kind of populism others have. https://t.co/hZxtyNrA7y
At least, Vance
hopes those cornpone-sucking clodhoppers will fall for his high-dollar schtick…
A long-anticipated shoe drops in #OHSen: Peter Thiel is backing a J.D. Vance super PAC to the tune of $10 million. (via @jbalmert) https://t.co/oYnflIxNV9
Vance, like his paymaster Thiel, wants ‘the proletariat’ to be semi-literate serfs who vote when they’re allowed to vote the way they’re told. Letting those serfs better themselves by trading military service for an education damages their usefulness to Vance / Thiel, because educated troops are
Hillbilly Elegy author gets $10 million boost for potential Senate bid localnews8.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from localnews8.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Credit: (NJ Spotlight News; Joel Finkelstein)
Joel Finkelstein, director of the National Contagion Research Institute
Joel Finkelstein offers an instructive case study in how ideas form, take shape and spread notions both good and bad.
It starts in 2016 at Princeton University, where Finkelstein was pursuing a doctorate in neuroscience psychology. The son of a rabbi, he grew up in Tyler, Texas and was seeking a contemplative, respected career as a university professor immersed in the theoretical research of the human mind.
Then the world intervened.
Finkelstein started noticing that a growing number of his friends, from both ends of the political spectrum, “were going crazy,” as he put it. “Intelligent, reasonable people who I respected … were suddenly embracing hateful identity politics. They were becoming really exclusionary.”
The Hotline, Latest Edition: Tuesday, March 16, 2021 nationaljournal.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from nationaljournal.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.