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MAGA knives out for prominent conservative who told broke college kids 'cry me a river’
When the Burrito Costs $20, the Lie Costs MorePower, Not PietyMarc Thiessen tried to sneer a college student out of an affordability complaint and got dragged by his own side, with JD Vance joining the pile-on. The immediate spectacle is trivial. The political meaning is not: the people with institutional power in this story are not the students eating cafeteria burritos. They are the vice president, the GOP’s media ecosystem, and the think-tank class that has spent years laundering elite economic doctrine as common sense.The Student Was Not the ProblemA student said a burrito should not cost…
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