[ashoeafoot]

It educated the elite that determinated economic policy consensus left and right overlapping , the elite deteriorated the industrial base and the middle class, thus a anti-elite was voted in to carry them out .

The scissor between productivity and wages created the force that cut the economic roots of the institution.

[duxup]

>thus a anti-elite was voted in to carry them out .

Trump? Trump is the elite, how could anyone come to a conclusion otherwise?

There's no ideology at play with Trump, it's just another elite extracting what they can from anyone who doesn't do what they demand.

[jasbrg]

Wealth and class are different dimensions. Though correlated, especially in the USA which lacks a formal institutionalized gentry, just having a lot of money isn’t enough to be of the elite, high class.

[1659447091]

When a person has the elite kissing their ring and throwing money at them for an audience, it puts that person, wealthy/poor/classless or otherwise, in with -- if not at the apex of -- the elite.

[duxup]

I don't see why not.

And even if not, the man has been president twice, now deciding unilaterally who can or can not get taxpayer funds, handing out pardons to rich friends / donors, free passes for big companies who ask for it.

It amazes me folks fall for that guy's populist advertisements, Trump is the elite in spades.

Make no mistake, no matter what you think of Harvard and it's grads, if Harvard submits, Trump will support them....