Ivy League Populism
21st February 2008
Victor Davis Hanson takes a look at the People of the Crust.
Barack Obama may have gone to exclusive private schools. He and his wife may both be lawyers who between them have earned four expensive Ivy League degrees. They may make about a million dollars a year, live in an expensive home and send their kids to prep school. But they are still apparently first-hand witnesses to how the American dream has gone sour. Two other Ivy League lawyers, Hillary and Bill, are multimillionaires who have found America to be a land of riches beyond most people’s imaginations. But Hillary also talks of the tragic lost dream of America.
I am reminded of the pundit who characterized modern politics as a conspiracy by the upper class and the underclass against the middle class.