… the modern GOP: Ruthless finance capital empowered by white male anger.
Mitt and Newt are the two faces of the modern GOP. Romney, the man from Bain, provides a case study in how finance capital has hollowed out the middle class and enriched the top one percent over the last 30 years. Gingrich personifies the GOP’s politics of resentment, often fired by racism, that let the top one percent do that, driven by fear that government was favoring the undeserving poor. Instead government began to favor the undeserving wealthy.
The analysis of the day by Salon.com’s Joan Walsh.
A journalist's musings and wanderings, trying to find mindfulness and depth in the shallows of social media.
