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There is no Tycoon Party in the United States to impose ideological uniformity on a group of billionaires who, by their very nature as übermensch, march to their own drummers and differ on many matters. Some are philanthropically minded, others parsimonious; some are pietistic, others indifferent. …

put truculent labor unions in their place

what really bothered the country’s elites was his fulsome assault on the plutocracy.

what John Kenneth Galbraith characterized as the “New Class”—deracinated, upwardly mobile professionals, technocrats, midlevel “financial engineers,” new-media makers, and liberal academics

After the dolorous 2010 midterm elections, a certain gloomy apprehensiveness about the stunning triumph of Tea Party resentments has settled in.