Michael Winship at PBS:
America wasn’t founded as a nation where winner takes all but over the last couple of decades, that’s the way it has turned out.
The central vision of “We, the people” has been distorted and manipulated by the powerful and privileged doing their damnedest as they wage class war to sustain their way of life at the expense of everybody else, even in this current crisis.
Sold Out: How Wall Street and Washington Betrayed America
Nonetheless, they lash out, flailing madly, saddling up straw horses and conjuring memories of McCarthy-like witch hunts, desperate to point the finger at anyone but themselves.