{"id":597,"date":"2021-02-26T20:23:12","date_gmt":"2021-02-27T00:23:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/foggybottomline.com\/?p=597"},"modified":"2021-03-02T22:25:41","modified_gmt":"2021-03-03T02:25:41","slug":"blue-collar-billionaire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foggybottomline.com\/?p=597","title":{"rendered":"Blue Collar Billionaire"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>We&#8217;re at a place in American politics where conservative leaders make the claim the Republican Party represents regular Americans rather than Country Club elites. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The Republican Party is not the party of the country clubs, it\u2019s the party of hardworking, blue-collar men and women.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/z0tnKxFSkP\">https:\/\/t.co\/z0tnKxFSkP<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Senator Ted Cruz (@SenTedCruz) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SenTedCruz\/status\/1365397741044654086?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 26, 2021<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This comes from a <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ted_Cruz\" target=\"_blank\">Senator who got his degrees from Princeton and Harvard<\/a>. A Senator who <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/02\/18\/us\/politics\/ted-cruz-storm-cancun.html\" target=\"_blank\">ran to warm-weather Cancun<\/a> from a winter disaster in his home State instead of volunteering to help out the&#8230;blue collar&#8230;workers in Texas who were freezing to death because the free-market policies he supports drive profits, not reliable utility services. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In support of someone who literally owns &#8211; and lives at &#8211; a country club. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/politics\/what-politicians-in-texas-are-doing-for-winter-storm-relief\/\" target=\"_blank\">Unlike Beto O&#8217;Rourke and Julian Castro.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2021\/02\/21\/politics\/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-texas-relief\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Not to mention Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.<\/a>  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re at a place in American politics where conservative leaders make the claim the Republican Party represents regular Americans rather than Country Club elites. This comes from a Senator who got his degrees from Princeton and Harvard. A Senator who ran to warm-weather Cancun from a winter disaster in his home State instead of volunteering [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[247,245,1],"tags":[246,235],"class_list":["post-597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-republican-party","category-republican-party-dysfunction","category-uncategorized","tag-republican-party-dysfunction","tag-texas"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foggybottomline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foggybottomline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foggybottomline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foggybottomline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foggybottomline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=597"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/foggybottomline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":614,"href":"https:\/\/foggybottomline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597\/revisions\/614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foggybottomline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foggybottomline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foggybottomline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}