If you’ve been involved in political snark over the past decade, you’ve surely heard something about bootstraps. It’s a common talking point – part of Republican messaging is that poor people should just work harder and “pull themselves up by their bootstraps.” A quick Google-search of “GOP + ‘bootstraps'” gives a heck of a lot of results, including but not limited to: So it’s not just something that lives in the imagination of liberals who like to point out that Republican policy holds people down from doing the very thing that they’re preaching. Though to be clear, the phrase 100% flies in…
Author: Kevin Nye
Kevin Nye
Kevin Nye grew up near Cleveland, was educated at Ohio University and was re-educated by living in Chicago and doing improv and sketch comedy. He is a triple threat of mediocrity.