by the new ultrawealthy classes that grew up over the past few decades. In ours, they've largely taken over the Republican Party and infiltrated much of the MSM and are using them as weapons and tools to restructure our government and laws to serve them. Defeating Democrats in 2016 was crucial to their plans. The largest group in our nation is the Koch alliance, but that's just one among many.
2. The Republicans voters were trained by them to believe we were their big threat and turned into attack dogs to keep us in check. Divide and conquer the electorate.
3. Nevertheless, Republican voters know there's also something terribly wrong with their party leadership. Both the Tea Party and Trump were failed, clueless rebellions that their enemies successfully controlled and are currently mostly controlling and directing to gain further power.
4. They are currently using our legislatures at all levels to cut their taxes, repeal regulations on their activities, and rewrite our laws to institutionalize their power, making their corruption and exploitation of us legal.
And here we are.
This is a pretty recent article by expert Sarah Chayes in Foreign Affairs that helps illuminate why we should be talking far less about Trump and a lot more about the ongoing takeover of our government. One we have the ability to kill off the very same way our grandparents' generations did, by the way; but just like our counterparts on the right, our first step is to understand who our enemies are and what they're up to.
Kleptocracy in America: Corruption Is Reshaping Governments Everywhere
...Although many aspects of U.S. politics may be confusing, Americans are clearly more agitated about corruption than they have been in nearly a century, in ways that much of the political mainstream does not quite grasp. The topic has never been central to either major party’s platform, and top officials tend to conflate what is legal with what is uncorrupt, speaking a completely different language from that of their constituents.
Although the political establishment, including the justices of the Supreme Court, may cling to a legal notion of corruption, ordinary Americans’ more visceral understanding is in line with an anticorruption Zeitgeist that has swept the world in the past decade.
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