, Columnist
How Trump Will Stick It to Elites
Let's see how the corrupt cosmopolitans like their new vacation homes.
Drink up. There's more coming.
Photographer: Spencer Platt/Getty ImagesThis article is for subscribers only.
I am part of a despised and corrupt elite, and I have it coming to me.
It has taken me some time to absorb that reality; my fortunes have changed much. My father was a high school graduate who worked for years at a sales job he hated. My mother was a schoolteacher. I was the last of six kids so the supply train, always under assault, was pretty broken down by the time I came along. I started making my own money in sixth grade and never stopped. I finished paying for college in my mid-30s.