"As more left-flank challengers face off with center-left incumbents and more
democratic socialists begin looking toward the public office, beware: You will all be called champagne socialists or yacht communists, the ritzier and more radical counterparts of limousine liberals. It doesn’t matter how
comparatively humble your background is, or how
relatively modest your means in the context of the political class at-large — it’ll always be news if Bernie Sanders wears
a $700 coat or buys
a house by a lake, because his political position on inequality is so obviously moral that the only way to impeach it is to make him seem dishonest about it. The same goes, and will continue to go, for every other candidate who attempts to advance material equality."
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