It’s an almost too-perfect metaphor. This week brought news that a Republican member of Congress has decked out his office in the style of the mansion in “Downton Abbey,” the BBC series that Americansstruggling against income inequality of historic proportionssomehow can’t get enough of.
Maybe it’s because we can relate. The United States is fast becoming a real-life example — or worse — of the upstairs/downstairs inequality portrayed in the show. And it’s Republican policies that got us there and are making it worse.
On Monday, Ben Terris, a reporter from The Washington Post, toured the Downton-inspired office of U.S. Rep. Aaron Schock, R-Illinois. Terris described the outer office: “Bright red walls. A gold-colored wall sconce with black candles. A Federal-style bull’s-eye mirror with an eagle perched on top.”
“It’s actually based off of the red room in ‘Downton Abbey’ ” a woman at the front desk told him.
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