Conservative columnist Michelle Malkin dismissed discussions of income inequality as a “war on wealth”meant to shame and bully job creators.

Last week, billionaire venture capitalist Tom Perkins wrote an inflammatory letter to The Wall Street Journal that likened an alleged “progressive war on the American one percent” and “demonization of the rich ”to Nazi Germany's Kristallnacht, asking:“Kristallnacht was unthinkable in 1930; is its descendant 'progressive' radicalism unthinkable now.” Perkins' letter received widespread criticism.

In her January 29 syndicated column, Malkin defended Perkins, deeming the reaction to Perkin's controversial letter as further evidence of a “bullying epidemic” she labeled as “wealth-shaming” by “the grievance industry”:

Amen, amen, and amen. Perkins barely scratched the surface of the War on Wealth that has spread under the Obama regime. 

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 The deadliest threats come from the men in power in Washington who stoke bottomless hatred against “millionaires and billionaires” through class-bashing rhetoric and entrepreneur-crushing policies -- while they pocket the hard-earned money of the achievers trying to buy immunity. It's high time to shame the wealth-shamers and their cowed enablers. Silence is complicity.

Fox Business contributor Charles Payne similarly defended Perkins' remarks, arguing that the wealthy have “justified rage” and Perkins “may be a couple of years ahead of the curve.”

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