The progressive mindset is to hate everything about conservatives with a white-hot passion, except their money, which they covet with a white-hot passion. This story is consistent with that.
“The progressive mindset is to hate everything about conservatives with a white-hot passion, except their money”
There’s a bit of that addressed in “Atlas Shrugged”. A ne’er-do-well relative of Hank Rearden’s, BIL, I think, asked Hank to hand over a good deal of money. But he didn’t want his circle of friends to know it came from a capitalist.
It’s been decades since I read it, so am not sure if I got it right. But I think it’s something like that.
We have family who are happy to take our money when they want or need it. But have heard they bad-mouth us behind our backs.