Ronald Reagan perfected the subtler version long ago by talking about "welfare mothers" - a code phrase for people of colour.
Adam HochschildGrowing inequality is a huge problem, and of course is intimately connected to xenophobia and racism.
Adam HochschildHow many really great writers are there who are totally non-political? You can hear the French Revolution in the poetry of [Percy Bysshe] Shelly and [John] Wordsworth; you can sense the vast inequalities of Tsarist Russia in [Anton] Chekhov and [Lev] Tolstoy.
Adam Hochschild