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Sebastian Gorka: “The Rachel Maddows of the world, the Jim Acostas, the senior…”

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That's why the working class can relate to him. Not because he's rich and successful, but because he lives in a real world and is connected to it. The Rachel Maddows of the world, the Jim Acostas, the senior fellows at the think tanks across this city, the real world has no effect on them. and will never have an effect on them until they lose their job and they don't have the, you know, the Harvard connections to slide into the next sinecure. (45:37–45:50)

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Asserts that certain media figures and think tank fellows are insulated from the real world.

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