What was Trump about? What was MAGA about? Someone was ripping them off. Their world is a zero-sum world. If someone gets something, it is away from me. Medicaid, kids in headstart, maybe that blind man with the cane. "I'm paying for that talking traffic light for him!"
Trump is the same way. But he now has power. He is assuming powers he does not have. And when someone points that out, he feels he has been ripped off.
I totally missed understanding them. I am not against being taxed and I can see a need for many things we fund. I am shocked public schools being placed aside, so the GOP can build conservative institutions at all levels. Or maybe they just want the white working class uneducated.
Anyway, Fox News has been feeding this stuff to them for years. For at least 30 years the conservative media has been broadcasting all this stuff. And I failed to see that just by our presence, the teachers and scientists and people who get funding for jobs that are aimed at improving our lives...well, we have been ripping them off them too. What do they care about Harvard curing cancer, if they do not get paid enough for a comfortable living? Our effort, research, is a waste that is away from them. The elites must not be supported by tax funds! Pay for it yourself! Get your rich eltites to pay your research!
Day in and day out Fox points out all the waste, all the spending that does not give the working classes immediate benefits.
The working poor are fiannly getting relief from Trump cutting all the waste and deporting the aliens. Why were the aliens a ripoff to them? They got something from the government. Something the natural born Americans did not get.
The bonus was that their racists ideas, rejecting all foreign culture (except Mexican food and seet and sour chicken) that they did not even want to see or hear in public.
Trump himself now sees the US as something he more of less owns, since he can profit from it. In this sense his strage economic ideas com into play. ALL the other countries are ripping him, as CEO, off. Trade cannot be something both countries would gain something from.
