Rebecca Traister on Wendy Davis:
Davis’s real mistake was in behaving like she could get away with an Easy-Bake personal narrative—like George Bush, the rancher from Texas, or Mitt Romney, who didn’t inherit any money from his dad—without getting audited in a big and gruesome way.
Yes, nobody in the press or politics questioned whether “rancher from Texas” was a full description of Bush’s background or whether Romney had a privileged background. Excellent point.