'Rich Men North Of Richmond' is now the top song on Spotify, Apple Music, and more

Oliver Anthony's song, which decries 'the obese mlkin' welfare' and other right-wing boogeymen, has had a meteoric rise

that Anthony lyrically whines into the ether while accompanying himself onwelfare” and suggesting that politicians are more interested in “minors on islands” than America’s ownother surprise conservative money-makers this summer, including Jim Caviezel’s film, which

touch on a certain undercurrent of conspiratorial aggrievement seemingly on the rise in the US. If nothing else, it’s a sobering reminder that nobody ever went broke in America stoking the anger of people afraid of “a new world,” no matter what shape that new world might take.

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