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You want to talk about false equivalences and logical fallacies - pointing out that the richest people in the world earn vast tracts of money and should pay more tax is not the same as attacking people’s basic citizenship rights.

Perhaps you’re arguing that someone saying that George Soros should be deported because he’s a Jewish mastermind attempting to deform democracy is the same as saying Jeff Bezos should pay more tax? One of those is a racist anti-Semitic conspiracy theory. One isn’t.

That's rather a straw man, don't you think, to take an extreme example of culture war and a mild example of class war, and propose I'm saying they're equivalent? Of course they're not. You don't seem to be even trying to argue honestly here...

You aren’t providing *any* examples *at all*. You’re arguing completely in the abstract saying there is an equivalence without providing any evidence. You’re letting people fill in the gaps with their own prejudices.

I was referring to Elizabeth Warren's recent tweet attacking some guy who bought an expensive yacht, and saying that he was the sort of person she had in mind for the new tax she proposed.

This is of course nowhere near as bad as what Trump says about immigrants. The Republicans are far down the road of culture war, and the Democrats, as I said in my original tweet, are just start starting down the road of class war. But both are bad roads.

So she said the owner of the redskins bought a $100 million dollar super yacht as evidence that the ultra-rich could probably afford to pay a bit more tax and your argument is that this is the start of a terrifying march towards a class war?

This particular tweet isn't the start of it. There are several Democrats who use the soak-the-rich tax argument in the same way the Republicans use the deport-the-Mexicans immigration argument. And it's not that terrifying yet. As I've said (over and over) they're just starting.