The Price of a Soul at Yale Is Surprisingly Reasonable

Bessent wrote checks for Hillary and Obama. Vance compared Trump to Hitler. Now they run his government. The Ivy League pipeline explained.

Converts scare me – especially those over 29 years old. The reasoning is simple. People who have held convictions for decades and then abandon them overnight are not experiencing revelation. They are making a calculation. And when the calculation involves proximity to power and the wealth that accompanies it, the word for that calculation is not enlightenment. It is greed. Toss in the magnet moving their needle is Trump…well, that’s a thicker soup.

Scott Bessent, the Muppet-like Secretary of the United States Treasury is a case study in political metamorphosis so brazen it would scare the hair off a sweater. Here’s a man who spent the better part of his adult life in the orbit of George Soros, managing billions for the most prominent liberal donor in America. He ran Soros Fund Management’s London office for nearly a decade. He hosted a fundraiser for Al Gore. He donated to Barack Obama. He wrote a check for $25,000 to a Hillary Clinton super PAC. By every available measure, Bessent was…