![]() ![]() Johns Hopkins reports that 1,707 Americans died. Nor is the worrisome death rate in the rear-view mirror. ![]() ![]() Trump had predicted a worst case of 50,000 deaths last spring, but then Donald Trump could not find his ass with both hands. We have a minority-chosen President, Congress and Supreme Court. Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) - Holly Yan, Christina Maxouris and Theresa Waldrop at CNN report that the United States has passed the grim milestone of 250,000 deaths. (This same do-nothing Congress, the least productive Congress in history, has obstructed everything President Obama wanted to do to provide us with more jobs, a fairer economy, and a better America.) In April, Trump will host Chinese leader Xi Jinping at what Trump dubs the Southern White House, which is a Trump property where the initiation fee has doubled to 200,000 since Trump won. The Supreme Court does not represent the majority: it would have, if the GOP had not refused to consider President Obama's nominee, Merrick Garland, in a radical move unprecedented in American politics. The coronavirus epidemic has exposed the truth that the corporate oligarchs are firmly in charge of our fates and will be until the eventual collapse of our democracy. The Senate does not represent the majority: the Republicans control it because of gerrymandering, i.e. The winners wrote the policy the losers provided the votes. The House does not represent the majority: the Republicans control it because of gerrymandering, i.e. The conservative journalist David Frum, a Trump detractor, puts it very well in his new book, Trumpocracy, when he describes the Republicans as a coalition of the nation’s biggest winners from globalization and its biggest losers. Our president does not represent the majority. Bernie Sanders, known as a radical progressive, but whose positions are totally centrist, lost to the neoliberal Hillary Clinton in the Democratic primary. Donald Trump might have run as a populist prepared to raise taxes on plutocrats like, well, him, but according to an analysis by the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center, the bill he signed gave more than. The policy positions most favored by most Americans - get money out of politics, reverse climate change, have free tuition in community colleges, raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour, reverse mass incarceration, rebuild our infrastructure, get equal pay for women, take on Wall Street, protect the most vulnerable Americans, improve Obamacare (why not Medicare for all?) - were those of a candidate who was not even on the general election ballot. If this is democracy, Superman poops kryptonite. So the government of America does not represent a majority of us Americans. Nationwide, Democratic voters outnumber GOP voters, yet Republicans control the House and the Senate. Similar suppression efforts in other states also worked well. In Wisconsin, a federal court found that 300,000 fewer voters cast ballots because of new ID restrictions Trump won there by only 27,000 votes. In the three states that gave him his electoral college majority - Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania - Trump won by 100,000 votes, which are fewer than the number of voters suppressed by various Republican measures. In the process the analysis provides a multilayered contribution toward understanding how these normcore plutocrats in gold elevators have achieved and extended their power.Hillary Clinton won the popular vote for president by 2.8 million votes and counting, yet serial liar Donald Trump will be our next president. That Trump and friends are not on a ladder but in an express lift symbolizes the attempted velocity of this phase of corporate meritocracy. Asking how a depiction of glittering luxury can be presented as populist revolt, it discusses how elites draw on discourses of meritocracy, of “traveling up the social ladder,” to validate their actions. With an approval rating of 38 percent, the billionaire maintains a loyal base of followers who have evidently not been affected by the accusations of Russian interference that have marred his. Democrats have to attack not just Trump for being a scofflaw but also the system that lets the ultra-rich avoid paying their fair share. Analyzing the symbolic and material contexts of these two images, it considers the physical context of the lift within Trump Tower the tangled web of relationships uniting the men in the lift and the first photograph’s later life as a social media meme. Trump began his term in office with some of the lowest approval ratings of any American president, but one year later, ratings are holding up rather well. The article provides a cultural and political analysis of the plutocrats who are playing at being ordinary “winners,” or what it calls normcore plutocrats. This article analyzes two notorious photos of Donald Trump and Nigel Farage-one on their own, and one alongside Arron Banks, Gerry Gunster, Andy Wigmore, and Raheem Kassam-standing in a gold-plated elevator after Trump had won the US election.
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