How The Rich Rule Despite Unpopular Inequality

Published: Aug. 12, 2020, 11 a.m.

b'How is it that in a Democracy with massive inequality, where the poor have just as much voting power as the rich, do the wealthy continue to get what they want politically? It\\u2019s a question that\\u2019s troubled political thinkers for a long time.\\xa0\\n\\xa0\\nPolitical scientists Jacob Hacker and Paul Pierson have an answer in their new book \\u201cLet Them Eat Tweets: How The Right Rules In An Age of Extreme Inequality\\u201d. On this episode, we tackle that question and their answer.'