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>>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.”

liberalpatriot.com - Economic populism...

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. - albaby

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Absolutely, nailed it, sing it sister. Why has this post been up for 12 hours and I am the first to rec it?

The denial of reality by the liberals here never ceases to amaze.

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