the Plush Horses of Plutocracy........

“I’ve got to keep remembering … that Windrip is only the lightest cork on the whirlpool. He didn’t plot all this thing. With all the justified discontent there is against the smart politicians and the Plush Horses of Plutocracy — oh, if it hadn’t been one Windrip, it’d been another … We had it coming, we Respectables.”

-Sinclair Lewis, as excerpted from his 1935 novel, It Can't Happen Here, as quoted by Andrew Sullivan in this essay