Americans love an underdog, from baseball to politics.
Whether or why Mr. Trump is an actual underdog, or plays one on TV is left as an exercise for the reader.
Granted, it amounts to the difference between a silver spoon and a platinum spoon but it's still surprising.
I've never understood why people keep repeating this line as if it's derogatory.
I know a fair number of first and second generation immigrant business owners, and they have almost all started their businesses with help from their families. This has been very common in America for the last couple of hundred years. Probably longer. Why is this now considered a bad thing?
I mean, Mitt Romney was ridiculed for being rich and upper class and even he was less rich than Donald Trump.
Not sure if they are both professors, but, if so, I'd wager his evangelical base wouldn't allow either woman in the article to teach at their evangelical schools on ideological grounds, canceling them from reaching a whole set of students.