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Trump saw an opportunity and took it. The biggest opportunity, and the best, as he might say. He did not create this miserable environment, but he has shown how to exploit it better than anyone else before him. The ones that come after who will learn from his example are what we need to prepare for. The Stefaniks and their ilk.

I'm no scholar, but it seems to me that MAGA feeds off the (previously) simmering rage from the closing off of opportunities and undermining of communities created by the financial strip-mining of our economy from the hyper aggressive 1% squeezing nickels out of every facet of life, commodifying every transaction and taking their cut. I've heard the number $50 trillion transferred from the middle classes to the top earners over the last 30 or 40 years. Maybe that's left-wing counterprogramming, but it rings true for me.

This corresponds, of course, with the "Reagan revolution," curse his name. We now live with obscene levels of wealth inequality, which fuels rage and syndromes of despair, that Trump senses like a shark smells blood and feasts upon. The madness of it all is he is just the latest pitchman and promoter of exactly those government policies that exacerbate this mess in a self feeding cycle. Contrast to Joe Biden, who in my opinion is working mightily to break the back of this narrative and prove there is a smarter and fairer way. For which he is getting scant credit.

This is the story I want to see more of in the media. Although I'm not sure where it will fit, to be honest. It is more about educating the population about our history, and cause and effect, than about day to day reporting of political events. I hope someone is figuring this out, because we badly need this narrative to be told.

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