If that was true, there would never be less than 55 Republicans in the Senate. The rest of this author's story just goes downhill from there. Good thing this is a web-site and not a paper magazine, because the amount of wasted paper would be an affront to Mother Gaia.
This is the Bolshevik playbook; they did it in Russia in 1918, China in 1948, Eastern Europe during the Soviet occupation. Single out the prosperous farmers, seize their land, then dispose of them and replace them with communal farms where the lowly can be put to work seven days a week for a leaky roof and some hot porridge. Then the “elites” can use whatever money is extorted from the people who actually work so they can stock their “special” stores that only they can access. The author is some pinhead academic at a state funded school who has probably not had a real job in his life, an overpaid, underworked pinhead who absorbs our tax money, pontificating about things of which he knows nothing, throwing names at the actual producers and making threats they cannot enforce.