Let them Eat Tweets: How the Right Rules in an Age of Extreme Inequality
, "Let them Eat Tweets: How the Right Rules in an Age of Extreme Inequality"
English | ISBN: 1631496840 | 2020 | 288 pages | PDF | 4 MB
English | ISBN: 1631496840 | 2020 | 288 pages | PDF | 4 MB
A groundbreaking account of the dangerous marriage of plutocratic economic priorities and right-wing populist appeals―and how it threatens the pillars of American democracy.
The Republican Party appears to be divided between a tax-cutting old guard and a white-nationalist vanguard―and with Donald Trump’s ascendance, the upstarts seem to be winning. Yet how are we to explain that, under Trump, the plutocrats have gotten almost everything they want, including a huge tax cut for corporations and the wealthy, regulation-killing executive actions, and a legion of business-friendly federal judges? Does the GOP represent “forgotten” Americans? Or does it represent the superrich?
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