Which presidential candidate was born the poorest? Whose birthplace of the Bali cabin was the most developing?
Hillary and Bill Clinton are worth over $ 100 million, mainly due to years of using their government service to obtain fees for speaking and consulting Wall Street, foreign investors and huge banks. However, Hillary Clinton, a graduate of Elite Wellesley College and Yale Law School, often accepts the draw of a indigent man and southern slang in front of a specific audience. She claimed that “all my grandparents” were immigrants. Untruth. Only one grandfather emigrated to the United States from Great Britain. Hillary herself grew up in a wealthy suburbs of Chicago, in a conservative high -class household.
Republican presidential candidate John Kasich, Governor of Ohio, former investment banker and regional director Lehman Brothers, cannot end the speech, not to mention that his father was a postal carrier.
A graduate of Ivy League Ted Cruz, whose wife is the Goldman Sachs manager in Texas, reminds the audience that his father was a indigent Cuban immigrant.
Lawyer and professional politician Marco Rubio constantly refer to his Cuban parents of immigrants. His mother was a hotel maid for some time, his father for many years bartender.
A retired world -famous surgeon Ben Carson often resembles his needy childhood in Śródmieście.
Bernie Sanders points to his upbringing on Brooklyn from the outside.
Barack Obama in 2008 may play the same violin with hut violin best.
Obama was raised by middle class grandparents, and his grandmother was successful by the vice president of Bank Hawaii. They sent Obama to the most exclusive preparatory school in Hawaii. However, as the author and candidate, Obama spoke mainly about his father an immigrant Kenya, who abandoned his family and returned to Africa.
Regardless of success, like opulent or well educated, every presidential candidate-sometimes exactly, sometimes through exaggeration-as a state-of-the-art version of Salt-of the Earth Abraham Lincoln, the ridge of the railway born in a ball of Bali. Apparently populist America always wants a candidate for a man who can refer to everyday people who does not think he is better than us.
But upbringing of Bali cabin is of little importance when most candidates in the 21st century and their spouses are much richer and much more privileged than 99 percent of the country.
Republican nominated, Mitt Romney in 2012, was the son of a multimillionaire and millionaire himself. On the Romney campaign trail, he seemed apologizing for his success and wealth and never found a way to placid the voters that he was simply a guy “Aw Shucks”. Romney often wore left and working shirts, but he seemed more comfortable in the wings. When Hit Hit Machine ended with Romney, the successes of the politician and the entrepreneur were reduced to a little more than an elite capitalist.
All this leads us to the extravagant Donald Trump, who has so far turned the cabin motif on his head.
Unlike this year’s other presidential candidates, even a fictionalist, such as Trump, cannot claim that he is at a speed, a self -proclaimed man whose dad was a bartender or postman.
Trump could inherit over $ 40 million from his father, but did not apologize. Instead, Trump gives its net value to over $ 10 billion. He grabs money and “huge” and “fantastic” real estate resources and various companies. Trump is fighting in him, far from shading his opulent upbringing.
The Trump logo was decorated with everyone, from skyscrapers and turtlenecks to ties and vodka. His message is such a thing: “I was born rich, and then I became more richer – and now I want you to be as rich as me.”
So how does Trump draw his populist act, not sounding like a spoiled opulent kid? Certainly not in patrician fashion, such as Franklin D. Roosevelt or John F. Kennedy. Instead, Trump is proud of the fact that money is the only measurement of successful people – presidents apparently. Rich guys are “winners”; The rest are “losers”.
Trump’s accent is Brooklynese, not Fifth Avenue. His vocabulary is regretful street. His behavior is indefinite. His pointing fingers and attacks turn debates into fights. Certainly he is not picky, Windsurfing Multimilioner like John Kerry. Trump tells voters that he knows that politicians are corrupt because as New York Businessman he knew how to spoil them all.
Trump is not a banker, Techie or Wall Street investor, but a construction site, a Wheeler-Dealer, who speaks more like a New York taxi driver or Hustler Street.
For the first time in the latest memory, the candidate does not try to convince us that he was growing up the indigent, or that he is an elegant aristocrat who feels a sense of noble commitment.
Zillionaire Trump Shtick is certainly disgusting and terrifying. But until now his Braggadocio on his face somehow worked better with average voters than crying stories from Bali with all other wealthy candidates.
