typical lib mentality - fret about ‘the people’ while dreaming about ways to control them because they know better and being an absolute jerk to real people close to them.
He made all of them go to public school, live a pretty modest lifestyle, etc. In many ways that sounds good.
But he’s also a control freak, and a very cold man. She was deeply moved when he once told her that he appreciated her accomplishments, because for him to show such “emotion” was so unusual. Also everyone was shocked when she huuged him on Christmas.
If it has anything to do with being a lib, I can only add I’ve been around a lot of these rich libs and they are almost all SOB’s.