Robert Reich

Republican cultural populism is bogus. The biggest change over the last four decades — the change lurking behind the mounting insecurities and resentments of the working middle class — has nothing to do with immigrants, Democrats, liberals, “socialists,” “communists,” coastal elites, women, transgender people, or any other Republican cultural bogeymen. The biggest change over the last four decades — the change that has undermined the working middle class and corrupted American democracy — is the giant upward shift in the distribution of wealth and power that began in earnest under Reagan.

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