As the world’s wealthiest people were lining up behind former President Donald Trump’s candidacy, the Republican Party served up hours of programming at its convention designed to woo the working class with (mostly) fake populism.
During the first day of the Republican National Convention, the theme was “Make America Wealthy Again.” The evening’s program was a calibrated pitch to the working class — with speakers and video messages repeatedly slamming President Joe Biden over inflation, higher gas prices and grocery bills, and credit card debt.
O’Brien made the most of the historic opportunity, slamming corporate lobbying groups and companies like Amazon, Uber, and Lyft for failing to provide benefits to their workers.
That makes sense: Republicans’ messaging, the RNC platform, and the entire Trump campaign are about meeting people where they are and giving them resentment politics to chew on, while actively selling government policy to the highest bidders.
It’s no accident that during the first day of the RNC, The Wall Street Journal reported that Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk, the richest person on Earth, is planning to donate a staggering $45 million per month to a Trump super PAC — or that the same Trump group is being funded by the CEO of coal company Alliance Resource Partners, the co-founder of military spy tech contractor Palantir Technologies, and the billionaire crypto-loving Winklevoss twins.
Occasionally, the facade cracked Monday night — such as when the RNC welcomed uber-wealthy Silicon Valley investor David Sacks onstage to complain about “homeless encampments” in San Francisco and “illegal migrants.” Trumpian resentment politics have never sounded quite so distasteful.
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As the world’s wealthiest people were lining up behind former President Donald Trump’s candidacy, the Republican Party served up hours of programming at its convention designed to woo the working class with (mostly) fake populism.
During the first day of the Republican National Convention, the theme was “Make America Wealthy Again.” The evening’s program was a calibrated pitch to the working class — with speakers and video messages repeatedly slamming President Joe Biden over inflation, higher gas prices and grocery bills, and credit card debt.
O’Brien made the most of the historic opportunity, slamming corporate lobbying groups and companies like Amazon, Uber, and Lyft for failing to provide benefits to their workers.
That makes sense: Republicans’ messaging, the RNC platform, and the entire Trump campaign are about meeting people where they are and giving them resentment politics to chew on, while actively selling government policy to the highest bidders.
It’s no accident that during the first day of the RNC, The Wall Street Journal reported that Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk, the richest person on Earth, is planning to donate a staggering $45 million per month to a Trump super PAC — or that the same Trump group is being funded by the CEO of coal company Alliance Resource Partners, the co-founder of military spy tech contractor Palantir Technologies, and the billionaire crypto-loving Winklevoss twins.
Occasionally, the facade cracked Monday night — such as when the RNC welcomed uber-wealthy Silicon Valley investor David Sacks onstage to complain about “homeless encampments” in San Francisco and “illegal migrants.” Trumpian resentment politics have never sounded quite so distasteful.
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