What Conspicuous Consumption Looks Like to People in Need

Poor people can see you, Melania.

When Melania Trump boarded Marine One in four-inch stilettos en route to Houston to survey the ongoing damage from Tropical Storm Harvey, Twitter and the media had a field day. She later changed into sensible-ish sneakers (they look to be Jack Purcells, but it’s hard to tell definitively), but the damage was…