Howie Carr: Democrats hate JD Vance because his background isn’t cosmopolitan

This is a tale of two high schools — specifically, J.D. Vance’s and Kamala Harris’.

The stark contrasts between the two schools say everything about the differences between the two parties right now.

Sen. J.D. Vance, the GOP’s vice presidential candidate, is holding a “hometown rally” at his high school tomorrow afternoon — Middletown High in Middletown, Ohio.

If his (for-now-anyway) counterpart on the Democrat ticket wants to hold a rally at her high school, guess what?

Kamala’s going to have to leave the United States.

Kamala went to Westmount High School in Montreal — Westmount being the most affluent, English-speaking neighborhood in Montreal. Odd, how seldom she mentions her, shall we say, cosmopolitan background.

Of course, Montreal is but a hop, skip and a jump from the U.S. border. Much of Biden’s amen chorus in the White House has even less of a passing acquaintance with Middle America.

For instance, Secretary of State Antony Blinken. If Blinken wanted to hold one last high-school pep rally for his master, Dementia Joe, he’d have to fly to France.

Before Harvard, Blinken graduated from Ecole Jeannine Manuel, a la-de-da private school that caters to uber-rich Eurotrash like the Mitterands and the Sarkozys, not to mention the Grimaldis from the royal family of Monaco.

One of Blinken’s classmates in 1980 was a fellow by the name of Robert Malley, a Yale graduate who was basically fired from the State Department last year after his security clearance was pulled. The FBI is investigating Blinken’s pal for being thisclose to the Iranian savages in Tehran.

Quelle coincidence, as they say in Gay Paree.

None of these real-life Pepe Le Pews can stand J.D. Vance. It must be his beard.

Biden’s press secretary may have been born in Martinique. The judge presiding over Trump’s case in DC is originally from Jamaica. In New York, Judge Juan Merchan is a native, not of Brooklyn or The Bronx, but of Bogota.

But this is not to say that everyone in the Democrat nomenklatura is from parts unknown.

For instance, Jeff Zients, Dementia Joe’s chief of staff, is a local boy. He went to high school at St. Albans in DC. All the right, meaning left, people send their spoiled-rotten sons to St. Albans. Think Al Gore or Brit Hume.

Tuition this year at St. Albans is $78,196 a year. In modern Democrat circles, this practically makes Zients a street kid.

J.D. Vance is so palpably not one of Them. In his keynote speech, he spoke about the “homeland.” Their empty heads exploded.

Public high school? In the United States no less? This will not stand, comrades!

The apparatchicks did their best to stop him, that’s for sure. Australian-born billionaire Rupert Murdoch first promoted Nikki Haley for vice president, then Doug Burgum. The Dirty Digger’s final Hail Mary pass was Glenn Youngkin, the governor of Virginia.

Youngkin might be a Republican, but he can almost pass in polite society — he worked for the Carlyle Group, run by billionaire David Rubinstein.

Rubinstein owns the $39-million mansion on Nantucket where Dementia Joe and Dr. Jill spend every Thanksgiving. How are all those wind turbines working out for you now, Mr. Rubinstein?

As for Murdoch, he flew to Milwaukee, but he was not pleased. He was photographed at the convention, scowling during Vance’s speech as he sat next to neocon South Carolina Sen. Lindsay Graham, a Never Trumper turned Never Vancer.

At age 94, how many more conventions does Rupert get to try to play kingmaker at?

Sure enough, on Friday, Rupert’s Wall Street Journal ran both an editorial and an op-ed denouncing Vance. Screed after screed, in one left-wing sheet after another.

Another billionaire, Ken Griffin of the Citadel Group, likewise lobbied stridently against Vance.

Griffin even took time out from his number-one task last week — spending $45 million at Sotheby’s to buy a complete fossil of a stegosaurus dinosaur. Screw the working class!

The odd thing is, not so long ago, the Beautiful People didn’t just like J.D. Vance, they loved him. When he wrote his best-selling memoir, Hillbilly Elegy, they swooned.

Forget the Marines and Ohio State, what mattered to Democrats was that afterwards, he’d gone to Yale — just like Comrade Robert Malley!

If you check out the latest paperback edition of Hillbilly Elegy, in the front you can read page after page of the card-carrying fellow travelers’ gushing reviews — three from the New York Times (including one from Toronto-born RINO David Brooks).

The paperback also includes two raves from the Wall Street Journal, one from the Washington Post and two from The New Yorker. Even National Panhandler Radio called it “a story worth hearing.”

Now, I can guarantee you that every last one of those swells would fulminate that Hillbilly Elegy is racist, nativist, xenophobic hate speech. They write what they’re told to write.

Even Ron Howard, also known as Opie, was also ritually excoriated this week. His sin? His Hollywood production company was behind the Netflix adaptation of Hillbilly Elegy. Opie must go!

My favorite attack on Vance came from a pampered puke Yale Law classmate of his who is now a state senator in Georgia. A Democrat, naturally.

This trust-funded fop harrumphed that “their friendship began to fray after he chafed at what he viewed as Mr. Vance’s cynical and sarcastic jokes aimed at Yale elites.”

What more do you need to know? Vance hated Yale pukes. He must be Good People.

Max Boot is a columnist for the failing Washington Post. He was born in Moscow — you’re not surprised, are you? Naturally he had to check with a rote condemnation on X.

“I wrote that J.D. Vance would be the worst possible VP choice. So naturally that’s who Trump selected.”

Oddly, that’s all that Boot has said so far. But like Vance and Griffin and everybody else who’s rich and despises Trump together, Boot has been very busy this week.

His wife, who was born in Korea, was arrested and charged with “failing to register” as a foreign agent. In other words, the feds say she’s a spy. In addition to taking more than $37,000 from her foreign handlers over a decade, Mrs. Boot also writes for the Washington Post.

Quelle coincidence!

I can’t wait to read Mrs. Boot’s attack on J.D. Vance as an America Firster, once she makes bail.

If only Vance had given a different title to Hillbilly Elegy – maybe “Spies Like Us.”

Postscript: no one from Middletown High School in Ohio has ever been indicted as a foreign spy or fired for conspiring with mullahs who chant “Death to America!”

No wonder they all hate J.D. Vance so much.

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