“There’s just this
profound value in being able to be apart from the system and look at it
critically and have fun while you’re doing it,” O’Rourke said. “I think
of the Cult of the Dead Cow as a great example of that.”
An
ex-hacker running for national office would have been unimaginable just
a few years ago. But that was before two national elections sent people
from other nontraditional backgrounds to the White House and Congress,
many of them vowing to blow up the status quo.
Arguably, there has been no better time to be an American politician rebelling against business as usual. https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-politics-beto-orourke/
