who had never prospered much from the neoliberal globalization turn , those who saw bigger , better opportunities from an economic nationalist / protectionist turn , and all those long focused on the employer-driven project of undoing the New Deal politically , culturally , and economically . These various elements increasingly gathered around Trump .
They opposed immigration , often via hysterical statements and mobilizations against “ invasions ” fantasized as threatening America . They defined government spending on immigrants ( using native and “ hard-working ” Americans ’ taxes ) as wasted on unmeritorious “ others .” Trump championed their views and reinforced parallel scapegoating of Black and Brown citizens and women as unworthy beneficiaries of government supports exchanged for their voting Democratic . Some Republicans increasingly embraced conspiracy theories ( QAnon and others ) to explain diverse plots aimed at dethroning white Christianity from dominating American society . MAGA and America First are slogans that articulate resentment , bitterness , and protest at perceived victimization . Repurposing Cold War imagery , Trumpers synonymously targeted liberals , Democrats , Marxists , socialists , labor unions , and others seen as close allies plotting to “ replace ” white Christians . Trump referred to them publicly as “ vermin ” that he would defeat / destroy once he became President again .
The larger part of the U . S . employee class has not ( yet ) been won over by the Republicans . It has stayed , so far , with the Democrats . Yet aggravated social divisiveness has settled everywhere into U . S . culture and politics . It frightens many who stay within the Democratic Party , seeing it as the lesser evil despite its “ centrist ” leaders and their corporate donors . The latter include especially the financial and hi-tech megacorporations that profitably led the post-1975 neoliberal globalization period . The centrist leadership studiously avoided offending its corporate patrons while using a modified Keynesian fiscal policy to achieve two objectives . The first was support for government programs that helped solidify an electoral base increasingly among women , and Black and brown citizens . The second was support for aggressively projecting U . S . military and political power around the world .
The U . S . empire protected by that policy proved especially profitable for the financial and hi-tech circles of the United States ’ biggest businesses . At the same time , another part of
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