As the gulf between rich and poor grows ever larger, ignoring the problem becomes less and less credible. The plausibility of this argument, however, has only declined over the past ten years. The economist Greg Mankiw became briefly infamous a decade ago for writing a response to Occupy arguing as much, and there has been no shortage of people presenting the same case more recently in regard to Bernie Sanders. The first, seemingly preferred response is to simply deny that the ever-widening gap between those at the top of society and everyone else is a matter of any real concern.
In the post-Occupy age, the Right has had two kinds of response to the unwelcome intrusion of class inequality into the public sphere.
