Who, exactly are "the rich"? It is a meaningless expression.
Rich used to mean that you had the money to do whatever you wanted to do, whenever you wanted to do it.
Now, Rich means not having to depend on Democrats.
Not really.
Once upon a time I could have ventured a near-to-certain answer. Maybe someone with some up-to-date insights might venture one. Or, perhaps, they might recommend something to read, something equivalent to Ferdinand Lundberg's classic attack, The Rich and The Super Rich.
Nearly a thousand pages of text, footnotes and tables, Lundberg peppered his attack with such gems as the claim that the only difference between the Soviet Union and the United States was that Americans enjoyed a longer civil leash. In short, he regarded America as one large plantation.
Wonder who took Lundberg's place or Thorstein Veblen's?