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MEMORANDUM
To: Republican voters
re: What now? (Follow-up)
So it turns out we weren’t the only ones who noticed. Or, as Steve Benen put it today:
In the same interview, Moore added, “Reagan ran as an ideological conservative. Trump ran as an economic populist. Trump’s victory turned it into the Trump party.”
One of these days, conservatives are going to have to come to terms with the fact that they have no idea what “populism” means.
Indeed, not long after Moore’s remarks, the Republican president-elect, leading the newly transformed “populist working-class party,” indicated a variety of far-right billionaires would join his cabinet, including vulture capitalist Wilbur Ross for the Department of Commerce.
Which was right around the time Republicans celebrated a court ruling blocking President Obama’s policy expanding access to overtime pay for millions of working-class Americans.
Which was right around the time the Associated Press reported―about a month too late―that Trump’s tax plan would actually raise taxes on many middle-class Americans while delivering a windfall to those at the top.
This. Is. Not. Populism.
This Is 