The Divide Between Main Street Americans and the Elites Is Widening

Silicon Valley, Manhattan, and Washington have become bubbles that have lost contact with everyday Americans.

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Grant Wood: 'The Birthplace of Herbert Hoover, West Branch, Iowa,' 1931. Via Wikimedia Commons

For the past 30 years or so, the left has invented a narrative that there are two Americas: a group of very super-rich people — the 1-percenters — who have prospered over the past several decades, and everyone else who has gotten poorer.

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