Congressional Republicans like to present themselves as champions of ordinary folks, defending working Americans from liberal elites who believe in fancy stuff like freedom and equality for everybody. The world in which these politicians live doesn’t match their rhetoric of cultural populism very well, though.
An example of this came from Senator Richard Burr yesterday. Burr had doughnuts for breakfast. That seems very man-of-the-people, until you find the details of his particular doughnut experience.
Senator Burr sold tickets to political action committees who wanted to share his doughnuts. The tickets cost five hundred dollars just to eat the doughnuts. PAC “hosts”, who got a special kind of Krispy Kreme access, paid one thousand dollars for the doughnuts.
Thousand-dollar doughnuts – is that what the simple folk do?
They sit around and wonder
What greedy people do
And that’s what simple folk do.