This quote from 1858 is terrifyingly familiar:

Hammond attempted to justify the plantation system with what he called the “mud-sill theory” — the notion that social ranks could be naturally divided between a bottom “mud-sill” class of laborers who performed menial but necessary tasks, namely slaves, and an upper class of cultured elites who drive the advance of “progress, civilization, and refinement.”

Apparently, Dems have been working on this little revolution of theirs for quite awhile.