It happens every few generations. It’s what drove the fascist oligarchs of the Confederacy to reach out and try to conquer the entire United States in the 1860s. It caused the robber barons to murder union organizers and ultimately crash America into the Republican Great Depression in the early decades of the twentieth century. And it’s why wages have been stagnant while billionaires’ wealth has exploded in the years since the Reagan revolution.

Yup.