> Redistribution can only get you so far.

That "so far" being a middle class the envy of the rest of the world which the US threw away to create a new class of oligarch.

"Back at the tail-end of that era, in the early 1960s, America’s richest faced a 91 percent tax rate on income in the top tax bracket."

https://inequality.org/article/tax-the-rich-we-did-that-once...