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minus-squarejordanlund@lemmy.worldMlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·6 months agoTrump is a populist when it comes to public statements, he’s an elitist when it comes to actual policy. You don’t have to look any further than his tax cuts to see that. Who got them? The elites. Who suffered? Everyone else. https://www.cbpp.org/research/federal-tax/the-2017-trump-tax-law-was-skewed-to-the-rich-expensive-and-failed-to-deliver Or how he specifically engineered things like military flights to Scotland specifically to benefit his own property there: https://www.politico.com/story/2019/09/12/air-force-trump-scottish-resort-1493624 That’s banana republic level elitist corruption, not populism. His speeches? Pure populism. But his speeches were not his policy, well, until January 6th, then they overlapped.
Trump is a populist when it comes to public statements, he’s an elitist when it comes to actual policy.
You don’t have to look any further than his tax cuts to see that. Who got them? The elites. Who suffered? Everyone else.
https://www.cbpp.org/research/federal-tax/the-2017-trump-tax-law-was-skewed-to-the-rich-expensive-and-failed-to-deliver
Or how he specifically engineered things like military flights to Scotland specifically to benefit his own property there:
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/09/12/air-force-trump-scottish-resort-1493624
That’s banana republic level elitist corruption, not populism.
His speeches? Pure populism. But his speeches were not his policy, well, until January 6th, then they overlapped.