Beau

And I don't mean this in the, oh, you've reached the find out stage.

I mean, they literally fell for a line of rhetoric that caused them to vote for it.

and they'll vote for it again, because they may not get that all of the reductions in service and reductions in what the government does to help Americans and all of the additional costs are a central part of Republican rhetoric.

We need to run the government like a business.

The Republican talking heads say it, and the base repeats it so often that they never think about what it really means.

it becomes a key piece of the idea.

That's why it was a good idea to put a rich guy in charge, rather than somebody that actually represents them.

Let's take it step by step.

If the government is a business, what are you?

You might say you're a shareholder, but you'd be wrong.

The shareholders are the people who fund candidates.

You're just a consumer, a customer.

And if you buy corporate PR, that means that the business is there to be your friend.

By extracting the most they can from the customer while giving them as little as possible in return.

That's how you keep those profit margins high.

That's exactly what Trump's doing.

Jacking up prices and costs through tariffs, wars, and inflation, and cutting services and lowering expectations about what a government that's supposed to be one of the people, by the people, and for the people is supposed to do.

A lot of people who voted for Trump thought that by putting a rich establishment guy in charge, it would reduce the billionaire's class influence in government because he wouldn't be swayed by campaign contributions.

He doesn't need to be swayed.

He's part of their class and he is representing their interests, not yours.