re: "The Rise and Fall of Never Trump, Inc."

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What “populist” positions does Bonds hold or advocate specifically?

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He has three catch phrases and that’s all he knows. I called him out two days in a row and he got embarrassed…so he goes back to the catch phrases. He isn’t bright.

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Yet you want to tax the rich.

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Why wouldn't we want to tax the rich?

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Begging for freebies will keep you down. You'll figure it out.

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Not getting taxed is a freebie? That’s right Roger. Let it out.

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You mean like advocating to tax the rich??

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I was just giving you an economics lesson. I dont think youre bright enough to get it though.

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Steve Bannon: Populism is two things. It has a non-material aspect, which is anti-elite, and in that, a redemptive, almost kind of spiritual quality

Over the last 30 or 40 years, if you look at total returns from productive activity, more returns have gone to capital than have gone to work. Whether it’s trade policies that are populist in nature — bringing high-skilled manufacturing jobs back — whether it’s immigration and shutting down the border, because you’re trying to stop the competition from unskilled workers, the one thing in our movement that I think is different than some of the populism that you see, you know, in other places that we are populist nationalists.

I’m for a dramatic increase in corporate taxes. We have to increase taxes on the wealthy. For getting our guys’ taxes cut, we’ve got to cut spending, which they’re gonna resist. Where does the tax revenue come from? Corporations and the wealthy.

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Your movement is headed toward socialism.

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Not getting taxed is a freebie?

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Trump increased spending to cover for you.

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I was just giving you an economics lesson. I dont think youre bright enough to get it though.

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So…more taxes, right?

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Trump increased spending to cover for you.

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Non responsive. Are you saying not getting taxed is a freebie? Like the one you get from Alaska?

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I remember this well. He doesn’t want people in better positions than him doing well.

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Which is pretty much everyone. He is a populist that thinks the elite are keeping him down. It’s pathetic.

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Your knowledge of the code is minuscul

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It has zip to do with the code, Forrest.

It has to do with more revenue. They'll come not only after your income, but your retirement accounts too.

An informative read — thanks for posting SirW. I’m not surprised to learn that along with Kristol, the Bulwark was by founded a former CATO reject.

As a hard-shell libertarian, I have long suspected that the Libertarian Party — which long has served as an appendage to promote CATO policies — is a form of opposition control. This very likely explains how the LP ended up with a candidate who knelt for Black Marxist Lives in 2020:





Back to the Bulwark. For anyone interested, here is an enjoyable montage capturing the Bulwark’s highlights of election night: