Dear White Working Class, Your Man Trump Is Pretty Establishment After All

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Dear White Working Class, Your Man Trump Is Pretty Establishment After All

by Joy-Ann Reid at the Daily Beast

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/08/09/dear-white-working-class-your-man-trump-is-pretty-establishment-after-all.html

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The joke’s on you, Trump supporters. You thought you took over the Republican Party when you nominated an erratic theoretical billionaire and reality show star to tear down the walls of political correctness and “be your voice” in Washington. Well, a funny thing happened when Donald Trump’s poll numbers collapsed.

He has now adopted every retread economic proposal the GOP establishment—the guys Trump voters so despise—has been hawking for decades. Trump is now selling their wares like discount Trump Steaks.

His team of 13 economic advisers (six of them named Steve) reads like a CNBC credit roll. It’s replete with multi-million dollar donors to his campaign—oh wait, you didn’t know he had multimillion dollar donors? You thought he was self-funding? Well about that… The Trump team is light on actual economists (there are none) but heavy on Wall Street titans, energy magnates and hedge fund guys you’d expect to be backing Marco Rubio or Jeb!. He’s even got a guy, John Paulson, who made a killing on middle-class families’ failing mortgages in the Great Recession.

Far from offering something new that could rescue the white working class and restore their life chances, Trump is rolling with a bunch of Calvin Coolidge bluebloods who probably wouldn’t wipe their noses on a blue-collar worker, let alone have any interest in restoring the solid, middle-class jobs they used to count on, back when unions still had strength in the manufacturing world and the New Deal mostly helped people like them. Erect big trade barriers and resurrect the American steel industry? Who’s going to lead that initiative in the Trump administration? Cerebrus Capital Management CEO Stephen Feinberg or billionaire poker player Andy Beal? Good luck with that, Sheboygan.


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[whistler162]

1. Yup.. we white working class people is sooooo dumb

we don't know when someone is a con artist.