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> It’s true that coastal elites harbor a lot of resentment toward “rednecks” for things like the recent abortion ruling

Nah, the abortion ruling is a product of coastal elites; there aren’t any rednecks on the Supreme Court.




That’s true. GOP Supreme Court picks have skewed far more towards elite libertarians than the actual GOP base. But Justice Barrett is a Midwestern church mom, which is a core GOP constituency.


And Clarence Thomas didn't move to DC until age 31, saying of his stint at Yale "I peeled a fifteen-cent sticker off a package of cigars and stuck it on the frame of my law degree to remind myself of the mistake I'd made by going to Yale. I never did change my mind about its value."




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