It's funny to me that the Trump ticket is pushing this they are for the everyman and against elites...they are the elites. You can't get more elite than a billionaire and silicon valley VC guy.
My conservative relatives are too busy "protecting" their kids from trans people in under 8 sports to stop and think about whether or not its right to slap their own kids for minor misbehaviour.
I love that the GOP has essentially been trying to destroy the Ivy League since the whole Israel thing got going, but so many of them are products of said Ivy League.