Conservative populism watch (part the third)

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In our previous episodes, we learned about the conservative son of a millionaire who is advertising a book on how you, too, can become the son of a millionaireget rich; and the conservative son of a millionaire who told the endearing little story about how he deployed his charmused the fact that his daddy owned the fourth biggest car company in the U.S. to court his wife.

This third installment is about that selfsame son of a millionaire, who happens to be a presidential candidate. Speaking at a business school graduation dinner, he said:

"It takes chutzpah, I believe, to buy a company from somebody else."

It reminds me of my dear old granddad, who came across the ocean tired, poor, yearning to breath free, then had the chutzpah to buy a business from somebody elsea href="http://www.bondedmessenger.net/">started his own damn business, you pretty-boy twit.





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