Marco Rubio is the anti-Hillary

Clinton is running a populist campaign. She is also quite rich. And she did not get rich by starting her own business, the American way. She got rich through — is there a polite way to say this? — her husband’s post-presidential influence-peddling.

Now, Hillary was not born to money, a fact that her campaign is planning on relentlessly highlighting to deflect this problem. But Americans know that this was a billion years ago, and that Clinton has long been living in a bubble of privilege, power, and wealth that us mere mortals cannot even imagine.

Meanwhile, Rubio was still paying off his student loans when he got to the Senate. For all the talk of Clinton’s middle class roots, it only rings false from someone who hasn’t driven a car since 1996. Rubio still remembers what the real world is like, and can talk about it in a much more credible way. This makes him a better candidate in general, but particularly in an election season in which the GOP’s biggest problem is the perception that it’s a party of the rich, by the rich, for the rich.