Matthew Sheffield on Nostr: Donald Trump is not a populist. He's a vulgarian. There's a huge difference between ...
Donald Trump is not a populist. He's a vulgarian.
There's a huge difference between the two. A populist policy about Social Security would raise the tax threshold and fund the program for decades. Instead, Trump is trying to make it insolvent to force benefit cuts.
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