And it's about time.
Billionaires are the target in this year's Democratic campaign
Even a few billionaires are jumping on the "bash billionaires" bandwagon.
Apparently, this is reminiscent of FDR in the 1936 campaign, when bashing the rich was also in vogue.
Should billionaires be allowed to exist? Not according to Bernie Sanders.
Sanders and Warren are leading the charge against billionaires.
Why has antagonism against the super-wealthy increased in this campaign? The article explains that it's not simply due to large disparities in wealth, but also due to various scandals, such as Big Pharma execs gouging customers, tech execs failing to protect users' privacy or respond to foreign disinformation, the bailing out of financial execs following the mortgage crisis which they caused.
This apparently has been a long time coming within the Democratic Party, as previous leaders were highly reticent and timid when it came to attacking the super-wealthy (which is likely the reason a lot of blue-collar voters have turned against them).
It appears that Democrats are finally beginning to realize that trying to placate the rich was a failed strategy.
As noted in the bolded quote above, this is not about class envy, but more about people getting rich at the expense of average Americans, using dishonest, devious means to do so.
What's also interesting is that both Warren and Sanders take pride in the scare tactics used by billionaires who oppose them:
This is the common refrain from the wealthy, with empty, baseless Chicken Little warnings that the sky will fall if the dreaded "socialists" take over. But they're only worried about themselves and the super-wealthy. The other 99% of America would be just fine if socialists took over.