I understand that it’s hard to resist arguments that tilt against the conventional wisdom, but this tendency led to two particularly frustrating bits of analysis in the Washington Post.

The format for the two pieces is almost exactly alike. They start out—I’m only slightly paraphrasing—“we all know inequality is on the rise and that the middle class and the poor are getting squeezed, right? Wrong!”

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Oftentimes in this biz, your antennae pick up a signal that an organized group is trying out a new argument to see how it resonates with the public. They’re “raising it up the flagpole to see who salutes,” as it were.

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