Okay, so people change and grow. I hope in the case of 2016 Libertarian Party vice presidential nominee William Weld it is indeed genuine. I greatly suspect it is not and that he remains a 21st century specimen of a Northeastern Seaboard Establishment Rockefeller Republican: uber-hawkish, CFR, “fiscally conservative, socially liberal,” and trying to out SJW the SWJ progressives. In many ways his career path has followed this earlier dynamic Rockefeller Republican prosecutor/governor who became presidential fodder, or even this guy.
As this Wikipedia entry demonstrates, Weld is quintessential New England Yankee elite. His ancestor Edmund Weld was among the earliest students (Class of 1650) at Harvard College. He would be followed by eighteen more Welds at Harvard, where two buildings are named for the family. Weld’s father David (1911–1972) was an investment banker; his mother, Mary Nichols Weld (1913–1986), was a descendant of William Floyd, who was a signer of the Declaration of Independence. Weld is a principal at Mintz Levin, and co-chaired the Independent Task Force on North America under the Council on Foreign Relations, which studied the liberalization of markets and free trade between the USA, Canada, and Mexico. He has been very critical of Donald Trump’s ideas on trade, deferential to upholding NAFTA and the WTO.
2:58 pm on June 3, 2016
