Nowadays, the Left is prone to make arguments about the dangers of plutocracy. So damaging is the inordinate power of the wealthy in their minds that Democrats keep proposing, and in 2014 voted in the U.S. Senate, to strip the Constitution’s First Amendment of its guarantee of free political speech.

In that light, last week’s antics over D.C. statehood are fairly rich. It is a campaign to enfranchise the privileged, to give vastly disproportionate representation in Congress to the wealthiest and most politically connected city in America.