Subject: Re: Marker: December 9, 2024
And somehow the poor MAGA fools think Trump is on THEIR side.

He is on their side. They just don't view the conflict as being between them and Wall Street moguls. They see the conflict being between them and the upper-middle class. Ruy Teixeira summarized it well.

To put it bluntly, voters, particularly working-class voters, harbor deep resentment toward elites who they feel are telling them how to live their lives, even what to think and say, and incidentally are living a great deal more comfortably than they are. This is not the rich as conventionally defined by economic populism but rather the professional-dominated educated upper middle class who occupy positions of administrative and cultural power. By and large, these are Democrats in Democratic-dominated institutions. Looked at in this context, truly populist Democrats might want to say, with Pogo: “We have met the enemy and he is us.”

https://www.liberalpatriot.com...

IOW, the MAGA folks aren't in a fight with the 0.1%. They're in a fight with the upper 10%. And if they can join with the 0.1% to push back on the rest of the upper 9.9%, they'll gladly make that alliance.