With class animosities disguised as high-minded mistrust, Adams's anti-Grant virus communicated itself to other "reformers," who saw in Grant's readiness to use the normal spoils system of civil-service appointments a form of rampant corruption.
Instead, on the right, ill-defined class animosities are channeled into culture wars, where they simmer until political entrepreneurs stir them up into virulent political movements.
The creation of a delinquent class only helps fuel animosity between the Poconos' haves and have-nots.
In Lawrence, Justice Kennedy observed that Romer "struck down class-based legislation directed at homosexuals" because "the provision was 'born of animosity toward the class of persons affected' and... had no rational relation to a legitimate government purpose".
The established Mexican-American middle and lower-middle class understands that the racial animosity being unleashed by Trump "puts at risk their American Dream".
We concluded that the provision was born of animosity toward the class of persons affected and further that it had no rational relation to a legitimate governmental purpose.
But Dr David Green, director of think tank Civitas, told the BBC: "This approach is, to my mind, a kind of social engineering based on animosity to middle-class parents.
Indeed Churchill, as an alleged traitor to his class, earned the lion's share of Tory animosity.
"There was never a word of animosity spoken; they were the epitome of class, of champions," Veitch said of Affirmed's camp.
The father was once eased out by the Knicks when Ewing became disenchanted with him, but the son, one of the class acts in his sport, showed no sign of animosity as he discussed the trade.
