Markos Moulitsas, Editor - Daily KosStephan: To anyone who actually reads history and studies how democracies turn into fascist oligarchies, it is obvious that is exactly the track the United States is on. And who is getting hurt? Why the low education working class evangelical men and women who voted for him, of course. Those are the people who always have their lives devastated in fascist coups. Here is the latest proof of what I am saying. I think there is a good chance that we will be in a recession by this Fall.
I will never stop marveling at President Donald Trump’s uncanny ability to surgically hurt the very people who put him in office.
From the start of his latest term as president, Trump has taken a wrecking ball to the federal workforce. He and onetime “first buddy” Elon Musk took glee in destroying as many government jobs as possible. Agencies were hollowed out. Experienced civil servants pushed out. Entire departments left leaderless.
Meanwhile, Trump sold tariffs as a way to bring manufacturing jobs back to the U.S. He promised a revival of American industry with factories buzzing again, and “Made in America” stamped on everything from steel to semiconductors. But here we are, half a year into his term, and manufacturing jobs are being lost at the same rate as the government jobs that Trump has been intentionally eliminating.
It’s a breathtaking and deliberate policy failure. The very communities that bet their futures on Trump’s economic nationalism are the ones now getting steamrolled by it. States like Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania—they’re bleeding the jobs Trump vowed to protect.
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