Yes, AOC, billionaires earned their wealth

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At a recent event at the University of Chicago Institute of Politics, Rep. Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) told the crowd that the American Revolution was fought “against the billionaires of their time.” The founding generation, she argued, had rebelled against the “extreme marriage of wealth and power and the state that the voices of everyday people did not exist.”

This brand of stilted Marxist revisionism is so utterly nonsensical that it almost makes The 1619 Project seem plausible.

There’s zero evidence that the war of independence was driven by any class resentment, much less progressive hobby horses like “wealth disparity.” The American Revolution couldn’t have happened without the