Election after election, Democratic Party candidates obsessively focus their ire on the wealthy.  They use the rich as their political whipping boys, accusing them of being or implying that they are like parasites, sucking the life out of the poor and middle class: "The wealthy are not paying their fair share in taxes."  "We'll let the wealthy pay for it." Since frontal attacks on rich Americans would seem in-your-face adversarial, why do wealthy donors disproportionately shower Democrats with a flood of cash every election cycle? The evidence indicates that at the same time Democrats are publicly chastising the wealthy, behind the scenes, they give their richest donors a wink and a nod, along with whispered assurances of loyalty and favoritism, conditioned upon the amount of money donated.  As the saying goes, "Follow the money." Michael Barone's January 2017 article "Which Party Is the Party of the 1...(Read Full Post)