When Big Money Serves “Woke” Government

CommentaryOne of the biggest laughs in the 1977 Tony-winning Broadway musical Annie was when the President and Mrs. Roosevelt accept tycoon Daddy Warbucks’s invitation to Christmas Eve dinner, and Warbucks, having not thought they would, barks, “Call Al Smith and find out what Democrats eat.”
While it’s true that during the Great Depression the likes of the Rockefellers and the Vanderbilts would not have known what to serve then-New York Gov. Al Smith, or anyone else from the Lower East Side, Annie …