what is going on with congestion pricing backlash is there is a subset of people who (a) want to be seen as poor for sympathy over having to pay $9, and (b) who think the train is for the poor-poor people, which they are of course not and who are also a separate species of human.
We really don't talk enough about how, for so many Americans, "church" is just a weekly rock concert/laser light show interspersed with speeches from Adolf Hitler at the world's ugliest ultramall