Posted on September 24, 2022 by Maddie | spacejelly

Deval Patrick Deval Patrick, one of the two co-chairs of the Covid Collaborative, describes his way of talking and dressing as "preppy" while, at the same time, reminding his audience at every allowable occasion how he grew up on welfare in a "crowded tenement" on the South Side of Chicago with his sister, mother, and grandmother.?2 He tells stories about how he never owned a book as a child, slept on the floor, and went to "sometimes violent" public schools (isn't every public school "sometimes violent?"). He describes his mother as a refugee of the Jim Crow South and labels himself as the American success story his mother sought in her hard-fought Illinois refuge. If Deval Patrick is anything, he is radically and bizarrely consistent in his language. Over the last few decades, he has reiterated the same talking points, stories, and opinions, often using precisely identical words and phrasing.

For instance, here is then Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick stumping in Boston for Presidential candidate, Barack Obama in 2008: 

Keys: 0:39 (poverty, south side of Chicago, break at 14 to go to boarding school in MA), 6:29 (every child on the block), 7:00 (membership in community)...