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Saturday, April 13, 2019

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s ‘psycho’ class war

To what extent is income ­inequality a genuine concern for our society as a whole, and to what extent are people ­using income inequality as a mask for being angry at the rich for ­being rich and especially at the ­super-rich for being too rich?

Everybody’s favorite political phenom, income-inequality obsessive Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, may have given the game away this week with a tweet that revealed how much of the emotion on the left ­regarding wealth is based in the idea that private-sector gains are ill-gotten and that the getters should not only be stripped of their lucre but punished for their insolence in daring to accumulate it.

She was responding to a weird article published on CNBC’s website about how some entrepreneurs have qualities also associated with psychopaths. It’s a piece so idiotic it should never have been published.

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