Tim Walz is the perfect foil to the GOP’s performative anti-elitism

The vice-presidential debate will be a battle over two brands of class politics.

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Who is the elitist? One person has a bachelor’s degree from Chadron State College in Nebraska. His master’s comes from Minnesota State University at Mankato, and he spent the next 17 years of his life as a teacher. The other got his BA from Ohio State University and his JD from Yale Law School.

After receiving his law degree, he clerked for a federal judge, practiced corporate law at the prestigious firm Sidley Austin and went to California to work in the tech industry as a venture capitalist..