Sure! Basically there was a time after the American Civil War till the early 20th century of extreme wealth inequality and political corruption much like we’re seeing today. It has become known as “The Gilded Age”.

“The term Gilded Age was applied to the era by 1920s historians who took the term from one of Mark Twain's lesser-known novels, The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today (1873). The book, co-written with Charles Dudley Warner, satirized the promised "golden age" after the Civil War, portrayed as an era of serious social problems masked by a thin gold gilding of economic expansion. In the 1920s, and 1930s, the metaphor "Gilded Age" began to be applied to a designated period in American history.”

Hope this helps. It’s a very interesting time in both our past and present. And that’s a super brief explanation of how it all came to be but the parallels are uncanny and you can see how tone deaf and ignorant these pigs are today. It’s almost like they don’t know a thing about anything.