“Top-down economics doesn’t work,” President Obama told an adoring crowd this September in Virginia Beach. “We don’t need to double down on the same trickle-down policies that got us into this mess in the first place,” he continued.

Fighting income inequality has been the “driving force” of Obama’s entire tenure as president, the Washington Post’s Zachary Goldfarb tells us. It certainly explains why Obama is willing to risk sending the U.S. economy into a second recession in order to obtain a $1.6 trillion tax hike on the richest 2 percent of Americans.