A dear millennial friend and I once had a fraught conversation. It came back to me upon reading that the demographic most receptive to socialist candidates and their far-left agenda was the urban “downwardly mobile elite.”

My friend, the son of hard-working immigrants, possessed an Ivy League degree. He was miffed that a couple he knew struggled to pay for child care.

At a certain point in this story of injustice, I tried to ascertain the extent of his friends’ need for government-sponsored child care. I asked my friend about the couple’s combined income.

He responded with silence.

I asked again. Again, silence.

He knew that the answer would not help his case. The father and mother were both employed in tech, as was my friend. Their combined income was probably well north of $200,000.

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