America’s divisions are deepening. Evidence is everywhere with the primary divide epitomized by the continuing effort to impeach Donald Trump, hatred of whom is palpable. That division existed long before Trump, but he has come to symbolize it since his election in 2016. Opponents see him as a rich white guy, and that’s enough to hate him because their world view is that no one becomes a billionaire without robbing the poor and middle classes.
Hatred of the rich has been a central leftist dynamic since at least the early 20th century when International Workers of the World activist Joe Hill inserted his song “The Preacher and the Slave,” whose refrain is “Pie in the sky when you die,” into its Little Red Songbook.
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