The power of plutocratic pettiness came into focus during the Obama years, when many wealthy financiers were enraged by a president who, objectively, hadn't done anything to deserve it. On the contrary, he had helped bail many of them out from the consequences of a financial crisis that they helped cause. But he occasionally dared to say that Wall Street had, indeed, played a role in the crisis, and in general he didn't seem to treat rich bankers with the extreme deference that they considered their due...
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