Just a Working-Class Party Can Challenge Donald Trump’s Corruption
Politics/ November 26, 2024
GOP plutocracy prospers as long as Democrats stay beholden to Wall Street.
Scott Bessent speaks at the National Conservative Conference in Washington, DC, July 10, 2024.(GWINN/ Middle East Images/ AFP through Getty Images)
The late Mario Cuomo had a rueful expression he liked to repeat: "You project in poetry; you govern in prose." Donald Trump has an even easier political formula: Campaign like a populist; govern like a plutocrat. That was the pattern of his very first term in workplace, when he ran as an avatar of working-class rage-- h...