“Wall Street will not love Buh-nie Sanduhs,” the candidate memorably declared during a 2016 primary debate. Indeed, the 1 percent is Sanders’s true enemy. But there’s another group that doesn’t love the socialist senator, either: the upper middle class.

All the hate already directed toward Bernie from the pundits, and from some of your friends and colleagues? All those New York Times articles? The desperate attempt to make him go away before he’s even launched his 2020 campaign? Sanders haters fixate on race, gun control, “divisiveness,” his age, sexism, or the incivility of his supporters. If Bernie weren’t Jewish, he’d be antisemitic. But it’s really about the haters’ class interests.

In 2016, voters with incomes more than $100,000 voted for Hillary Clinton over Bernie Sanders by a 17 percent margin. Many liberals in this class are hostile to socialism for the same reason as the superrich: they don’t want us to take away their stuff.