Donald Trump is an abject outsider. He has challenged more than the agendas and assumptions of the political establishment; his very manner in appearance, speech and governing is an affront to the Washington political class and media, their norms and euphemisms (which is why they despise rather than simply oppose him.)
Trump has the instincts to see the wisdom of not writing off the interior of the country as an aging and irredeemable "basket of deplorables." Despair in America's Heartland has proven the need to question the previously unquestionable tenets of a global, liberal order that only serves to enrich cities and the elites who live there. Trump is the only candidate campaigning to break American out of the globalist doldrums and transform our national spirit; his opponents only offer misplaced nostalgia for the very past that precipitated the necessity of Trump's politics - there is no transformation, no message, no relief in what they offer to America.
Who do you think the 2017 tax cuts mostly benefited?
Donald Trump can say he hates "the elites" but he keeps rewarding them with massive tax cuts.
Trump's tax changes really benefited pass-through entities and small businesses.
He severely limited the SALT and other deductions aimed at high income earners in in high-tax states.
Republicans claimed that the corporation tax cuts would “trickle down” to employees as companies used them to increase salaries. Of course, and as Trump and the GOP knew full well would happen, the corporations instead just increased shareholder dividends, ballooning the deficit and bringing to benefit to most Americans. The truth is that Trump, a New York elite who has never done an honest day’s work in his life, has governed as a standard economically hard-right, elitist and pro-corporate Republican.
