"In this age of right-wing 'populism,' Republicans take pains to cultivate a downward-looking class resentment in white Middle America. Trump and his allies rail against 'the illegals' who run roughshod over our nation's laws, and the shiftless 'takers' who live off the toil of the forgotten man and woman. But such invective better describes the residents of Mar-a-Lago, than those of ICE's tent prisons, or NYCH's public housing. And there's reason to think that Democrats would benefit from giving Trump's reactionary plutocrats a taste of their own demagogic medicine."
Eric Levitz at New York writes that "The Times' Trump Exposé Is a Compelling Case for Class War."
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