Tuesday, May 11, 2021 12:34:38 PM
Glenn Youngkin Is the Working-Class Hero Republicans Deserve
Finally, the GOP has cast off the globalist elites.
Jonathan V. Last
28 min ago
https://thetriad.thebulwark.com/p/glenn-youngkin-is-the-working-class
1. Virginia
Remember this?
Well, come meet the Republican nominee for governor of the commonwealth of Virginia, Glenn Youngkin!
Glenn Youngkin isn’t a professional politician. He’s a worker! Just last year his company threw a big retirement bash after he stepped down as . . . uh, CEO.
https://www.carlyle.com/media-room/news-release-archive/youngkin-lee-2020-ceo
Okay, sure. He was a CEO and not a working stiff. But at least Youngkin was in the private sector, rolling up his sleeves every day to make stuff. To build things. Because what does the Carlyle Group do? Private equity and leveraged buyouts! The kind of business that real working-class Americans understand and appreciate.
It is a truth universally acknowledged that working-class men are always thrilled and excited when a private equity firm purchases their company in a leveraged buyout. “Restructuring” always means good things for workers and private equity is famous for showing deep concern for the welfare of employees and being totally, scrupulously fair as it takes distressed assets and spins them off for fast profits.
That’s why, even to this day, working-class Republicans revere Mitt Romney, another private equity guru turned politician.
VIDEO
Anyway, Glenn Youngkin will be treasured and loved by working-class Republicans because sure, he was the manager at his company. And sure, his company was a private equity firm. But at the end of the day, he had to sit at the kitchen table and balance his checkbook just like any regular guy trying to make do with a $19 million a year salary.
Also, working-class Republicans know that Glenn Youngkin is absolutely not a globalist elite. I mean, yes, his job as CEO of the Carlyle Group took him all over the world. The globe, if you will. And yes, the Carlyle Group did business with the bin Laden family.
And if you really want to pick nits, yes, on September 11, 2001 the Carlyle Group was hosting a conference in Washington and Osama bin Laden’s brother was their guest of honor.
Okay. Fine. On September 11, 2001 Youngkin’s $200 billion in assets private equity firm was hanging out with Osama bin Laden’s brother. When you put it that way, it sounds bad.
But you better believe that Glenn Youngkin is a true working-class hero.
Want to know why?
Because he speaks out on the only two issues that real working-class Americans care about today:
* Youngkin refuses to acknowledge that Joe Biden was legitimately elected in a free and fair election.
* His signature issue is “election integrity.”
That’s right. Joe Biden won Virginia by 10 points—nearly half a million votes—while Glenn Youngkin became the Republican nominee via a weirdo “drive-thru” convention with 30,000 participants in a process that went through six rounds of voting.
And Youngkin is the champion of election integrity.
Just like he’s the avatar of the working class.
It might sound crazy, but it makes sense once you understand that the only determining factor on acceptability for “working-class” Republicans today is a man’s willingness to publicly uphold a lie.
P.S.: Youngkin could absolutely win in November. He’s not the favorite, but if you discount the swing in partisan intensities this year, you’re crazy. In 2008, Barack Obama carried Virginia by +6 points. In 2009, Republican Bob McDonnell won the governor’s race by +17.
https://thetriad.thebulwark.com/p/glenn-youngkin-is-the-working-class
Finally, the GOP has cast off the globalist elites.
Jonathan V. Last
28 min ago
https://thetriad.thebulwark.com/p/glenn-youngkin-is-the-working-class
1. Virginia
Remember this?
Well, come meet the Republican nominee for governor of the commonwealth of Virginia, Glenn Youngkin!
Glenn Youngkin isn’t a professional politician. He’s a worker! Just last year his company threw a big retirement bash after he stepped down as . . . uh, CEO.
https://www.carlyle.com/media-room/news-release-archive/youngkin-lee-2020-ceo
Okay, sure. He was a CEO and not a working stiff. But at least Youngkin was in the private sector, rolling up his sleeves every day to make stuff. To build things. Because what does the Carlyle Group do? Private equity and leveraged buyouts! The kind of business that real working-class Americans understand and appreciate.
It is a truth universally acknowledged that working-class men are always thrilled and excited when a private equity firm purchases their company in a leveraged buyout. “Restructuring” always means good things for workers and private equity is famous for showing deep concern for the welfare of employees and being totally, scrupulously fair as it takes distressed assets and spins them off for fast profits.
That’s why, even to this day, working-class Republicans revere Mitt Romney, another private equity guru turned politician.
VIDEO
Anyway, Glenn Youngkin will be treasured and loved by working-class Republicans because sure, he was the manager at his company. And sure, his company was a private equity firm. But at the end of the day, he had to sit at the kitchen table and balance his checkbook just like any regular guy trying to make do with a $19 million a year salary.
Also, working-class Republicans know that Glenn Youngkin is absolutely not a globalist elite. I mean, yes, his job as CEO of the Carlyle Group took him all over the world. The globe, if you will. And yes, the Carlyle Group did business with the bin Laden family.
And if you really want to pick nits, yes, on September 11, 2001 the Carlyle Group was hosting a conference in Washington and Osama bin Laden’s brother was their guest of honor.
Okay. Fine. On September 11, 2001 Youngkin’s $200 billion in assets private equity firm was hanging out with Osama bin Laden’s brother. When you put it that way, it sounds bad.
But you better believe that Glenn Youngkin is a true working-class hero.
Want to know why?
Because he speaks out on the only two issues that real working-class Americans care about today:
* Youngkin refuses to acknowledge that Joe Biden was legitimately elected in a free and fair election.
* His signature issue is “election integrity.”
That’s right. Joe Biden won Virginia by 10 points—nearly half a million votes—while Glenn Youngkin became the Republican nominee via a weirdo “drive-thru” convention with 30,000 participants in a process that went through six rounds of voting.
And Youngkin is the champion of election integrity.
Just like he’s the avatar of the working class.
It might sound crazy, but it makes sense once you understand that the only determining factor on acceptability for “working-class” Republicans today is a man’s willingness to publicly uphold a lie.
P.S.: Youngkin could absolutely win in November. He’s not the favorite, but if you discount the swing in partisan intensities this year, you’re crazy. In 2008, Barack Obama carried Virginia by +6 points. In 2009, Republican Bob McDonnell won the governor’s race by +17.
https://thetriad.thebulwark.com/p/glenn-youngkin-is-the-working-class
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