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One of the things that's also amazing, and this response gets nearer to it, is that "economic grievance" arguments fail to make any class or *race* distinctions. /1 https://twitter.com/CarolWalshReal1/status/1355730540389781510
The people chanting in front of state capitols are not the poor and dispossessed. If economic grievance and inequality were the issue, black people would have overrun the Congress, not bored white realtors addicted to Instagramming their adventures. /2
If income inequality drove insane political behavior, black people - and black women, in particular, would not have saved the country and made Joe Biden the Democratic nominee. "All this political instability is about how I can't buy a house" is a very white argument. /3
And for me, a white, male, old, former GOPer to be reminding you that "income inequality drives political instability is a very *white* argument" is a weird place to be, but here we are. /4x
