Should a Handful of Billionaires Own More Wealth than the Bottom 50% of All Americans?

Is our economy here to serve average Americans, or are we here to serve those who own and control most of the money flowing through our economy?

At the urging of Republican Senators Hawley and Rubio, a new think tank is working out ways for the GOP to change their messaging.

They want to shift their rhetoric from support for corporations and the morbidly rich to pretending they care about working people. This new organization will, they say, “think differently about labor vs. capital than Republicans have in recent generations.”

It’s a cynical effort to capture Trump’s working class base. He’d promised he’d bring our jobs home from China, empower labor unions, raise taxes on the rich so high that “my friends won’t ever talk to me again,” and give every American full health insurance that cost less than Obamacare. Those promises helped win him the White House.

All were lies, but the GOP base bought it and gave him tens of millions of votes; now Hawley, Rubio, et al think they can bottle that populist rhetorical magic and repeat Trump’s shtick for 2024.