 hated and despised by the political and social elite, but loved by the common, the rabble, the people. The bourgeois has done everything to destroy him politically and financially. Most recently, they tried to take his life with a bullet. And by the grace of God, he survived and walked into that convention a profoundly grateful and changed man. There were no Hollywood A-listers per se, none of the Hollywood types who abandoned Joe Biden immediately after he was let off stage by Barack Obama.