Walz and Democrats keep attacking JD Vance for going to Yale. “Now, I grew up in Butte, Nebraska, a town of 400 people,” Walz said. “I had 24 kids in my high school class and none of them went to Yale.” I really do not like this attack line at all. Is the point that Vance is somehow less American, or his rural “credentials” are less valid, because he is a smart guy who rose out of poverty and went to an Ivy League school? This strikes me as a really dumb, ugly, and self-defeating attack line. I don’t know who it’s for. Vance’s story is a powerful and remarkable one that deserves celebration.
