"The people have been thinking about how the economy came to collapse in the first place, of the role that great wealth and the deregulation of the financial industry played. And over the years, the unthinkable has happened. People have started to say mean things about billionaires. Even the president has engaged in the 'rhetoric of class warfare.' During Wednesday’s debate, for example, this Danton of the Democrats went so far as to say that businesses shouldn’t get tax breaks for moving jobs overseas and even scoffed at that archetypal small-business man, Donald J. Trump.
"Rhetoric like this makes the very rich feel very sad."
At The New York Times, Thomas Frank wonders, "why do the well-to-do whine so?"
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