It seems that even on Thanksgiving 150 years ago, the liberal-media elite– like the artist Winslow Homer in Harper’s Weekly— were engaged in what today’s Republicans call class warfare and the politics of envy.
![winslow homer drawing](http://hurryupharry.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/winslow-homer-drawing-e1290820417905.jpg)
(Via the New York Times blog Disunion, which is “using contemporary accounts, diaries, images and historical assessments to follow the Civil War as it unfolded” a century and a half ago.)