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Republicans love the bootstrap myth. The conservative outrage over Barack Obama’s “you didn’t build that” comments was proof of the GOP’s deep investment in mythology that frames extreme wealth as a product of nothing more than self-reliance and hard work — more so than privileges afforded through inheritance or rich-friendly policies. I blame Trump for this.
But it’s noteworthy that he co-founded that business with his father, who had been a top housing official in the Reagan administration, and, as the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel once put it, “he used his father’s business and political connections” to build his own empire. That doesn’t sound like starting with nothing. Hovde has made a habit of attacking corporate subsidies. In 2012, during the Obama administration, he called on the federal government to “eliminate all corporate welfare.
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