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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.

In real life, the robber-baron industrialists and financiers of Wall Street were no more aristocrats than my grandma from the shtetl. They were parvenus.

the Reagan era ushered in a new age of Mammon-worship