Yes, and I am advocating that if the wealthiest desire to change the overton window around taxes there's plenty of other ways to do this on top of the op-ed for

Yes, and I am advocating that if the wealthiest desire to change the overton window around taxes there's plenty of other ways to do this on top of the op-ed for which I don't personally see evidence of happening (if I'm wrong please let me know). It's not difficult to buy up local newspapers in red states. It may be much more difficult to challenge Fox News, but we already have VC-unicorns for various stupid apps that're advertised far and wide. It should be possible to VC-startup a 'conservative' media, bribe mainstream fox news reporters to break contract to get on the 'conservative' media, and force them to become millionare mouthpieces of progressive billionaires with a major advertising campaign. The reason why we have such strong anti-tax now can be partially attributed to a highly successful creating of one's own audience through careful information feeding, powered by wealth, through multiple channels. Therefore, I don't see reason why the progressive wealthy cannot do the same manipulative tactics for their own purposes.