https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-b...tory-99759984/
I'm not a podcasts guy but I stumbled across this podcast on Clarence Thomas and holy hell what a rough childhood. I always wondered how his ideology was shaped. You're talking about all the role models in his life beating him and working him to death as a kid - removing the heater on the truck because having heat in winter somehow makes you less tough - to being on the SCOTUS - he probably looks at that as a necessary part of his success. No wonder he's a consummate conservative, a tough, no frills childhood with strict role models results in him working his way up to SCOTUS - he's the ideal American success story in their mind.