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You gotta understand. Especially you Maga ppl. When trump talks about getting rid of the income tax or drastically cutting taxes that primarily benefit the wealthiest. Wanting to implement tariffs across the board while referencing how wealthy the country was in the 1890s. Only roughly 10% of the population was middle class then. This is a time of extreme capital being in the hands of a few. There was extreme exploitation. The government protected these robber barons because they owned the government. whenever ppl tried to organize it was the government who often stepped in to force ppl back to work using violence. Or use organizations like the pinkertons (google the homestead strike in 1892). Ppl had no workers' rights. Ppl were chewed up and spit out. There was basically no income tax then, and the country was primarily funded by tariffs. I've heard a lot of ppl say that when they refer to make America great again, they are referring to the 1950s - 1960s-ish era. During this time, the middle class consisted of around 60% of the population. That was made possible because of a strong progressive tax system making our wealthiest ppl pay more in taxes. The top marginal tax rate was up to 90%. And because of this, companies instead ended up just paying ppl more money and investing in the company. Unions was a strong bi partisan position. Republican Eisenhower actually ran on the platform on how many union jobs he created. But since the Reagan days, we've drastically cut taxes on the wealthiest, broken up unions, weakened workers rights and benefits, allowed stock buybacks, and we've watched the wealth gap absolutely explode. And now we find ourselves back in the hands of the robber barons in a new century. They are telling you now what the plan is. It's why elon says there is going to be hardship. It's why Trump can't all of a sudden guarantee prices aren't gonna go up. America has always depended on slave labor/extreme exploitation. The only time era where regular ppl were doing their best was when big business, for the most part, stayed out of politics. Which is coincidentally the time era where ppl point to as being great. The rapid mobilization of the business class to take their country back happened in the mid 1970s after the powell memo was released in 1971. Which was a corporate blueprint to dominate democracy. And it's what they've done for the last 40 years through corporate, dark money and think tanks/organizations like the heritage foundation and federalist society The middle class is drastically shrinking. Ppl are angry and need an answer. They need someone to blame. Along comes a populist that knows how to tap into that anger. A man that represents the class of ppl who created this economic anger to begin with. It's the classic authoritarian playback. Create conditions, strongman says i alone can fix everything, here's your real problems, here's who's responsible, give me full power, I'll fix it. Then they rob the country blind and crack down on "law and order" leaving it's ppl poor, and beaten. Regular Maga folk, I promise you. I know you don't realize it yet and your still riding high on "victory" but there's going to be a time in the near future where both of us are going to have to come together or we're going to get destroyed.