Take those elite-class Wives. Liberals typically assume the 1% consists of striped-pants tycoons off the Monopoly board who reliably vote Republican and want to cram retrograde religious ideas down people\u2019s throats. In fact, as social scientists (Charles Murray in \u201cComing Apart\u201d) and political analysts (Michael Barone, writing recently for the Capital Research Center) have observed, it\u2019s the Democratic Party that\u2019s the party of the 1%: the tech and finance billionaires, the media and entertainment moguls who cluster in expensive ZIP Codes around metropolitan Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York and Washington.<\/p>\n
Those folks aren\u2019t known for their church-going, and they vote in favor of liberal social and economic causes from abortion and immigration rights to sustainable energy to higher taxes. They contribute heavily to political campaign, and with their upper-middle-class epigones they run the culture, deciding who gets banned on Twitter, which kinds of \u201cdiversity\u201d are allowed on campuses, and what television programs we\u2019ll be allowed to see. Today\u2019s overclass Wives typically hold Ivy League degrees, \u201clean in\u201d to high-status careers, and stand with Planned Parenthood.<\/p>\n