Hamilton Finally Finds His Audience

Leading up to the election in 2016, Lin Manuel Miranda's musical, showcasing his flair for the sappy-hip-hop-dramatic, was selling for over $1300 a seat. The people climbing over each other to get their hands on these hot tickets were almost unanimously wealthy people from coastal urban centers, or in other words, Democrats. This ironic craze would have been hilarious if it didn't illustrate something so deliberate and disheartening.