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How can a plutocrat like Trump be a populist leader? He’s a product of the right’s reaction to neoliberalism

Read More... Donald Trump (Credit: AP/Kevin Hagen) Donald Trump does not come across as a typical plutocrat — and if he did, it is doubtful whether he would be the leader of a new right-wing populist movement in America. Though the billionaire was born into great wealth and privilege, and started Though the billionaire was born into great wealth and privilege, and started running his father’s $200 million real estate firm in the 1970s (a lucky break?), he has a very down-to-earth and unsophisticated way of communicating; as crude as the stereotypical drunk uncle and as slick and self-assured as a used-car salesman from New Jersey. Over the past year, the Trump has skillfully crafted his political image as a common man fighting against the elite Republican establishment, the politically correct “limousine liberals,” and, of course, the foreigners and immigrants who want to steal American jobs and impose their alien values on Jane and Joe Average. In a recent NPR interview, President Obama — who, unlike Trump, is a self-made man who grew up with very little — ventured to remind everyone about Trump’s plutocratic status, and how he has been a wealthy elite for his entire seven decades on planet earth: “Mr.

 

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