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The Disingenuous Schemer Ro Khanna Is A Model Democrat

Khanna was exactly a ‘front row kid,’ a credentials-focused urban striver. When you meet people like this at parties, they ask you where you went to school before they decide if they want to talk to you.

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Ro Khanna is exactly what Democrats have become, and I mean that as the kind of insult that leads to bar fights.

The Silicon Valley congressman is an optical illusion come to life, a man who appears to be standing on both sides of any cultural or political valley you can identify. Lavishly funded by tech CEOs and venture capitalists, representing a district full of extraordinary wealth, and personally an extremely wealthy man, Tim Cook’s congressman now spends his days denouncing personal wealth and tech billionaires. He’s a member of all the clubs he says he hates. But there’s some evidence that suggests the meaning of his increasingly strange performance.

Before you consider his politics, consider his background. The son of Punjabi immigrants, Khanna grew up in the affluent Bucks County, Pennsylvania. He was all the high-status things: high school valedictorian, econ major at the University of Chicago, Yale Law grad, clerk for a circuit court judge, political appointee in the Obama administration, box-checking big law attorney with a side gig at Stanford. He was exactly what the writer Chris Arnade calls a “front row kid,” a credentials-focused urban striver. When you meet people like this at parties, they ask you where you went to school before they decide if they want to talk to you.

When Khanna married, he made one of those........

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