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The GOP’s Class-Warfare Hypocrisy, From Nixon to Romney

Who’s the Elitist?

Romney in the Hamptons? Conservatives accuse Obama of class warfare, but they’ve run on class resentment for decades, says Peter Beinart.

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“A woman in a blue chiffon dress poked her head out of a black Range Rover here on Sunday afternoon and yelled to an aide to Mitt

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