Trump said he wanted to “see a tremendous victory” in the November election, “’cause it verifies all the things we did. And again, remember, with the war it’s just artificial, it’s a little bit high.”
“It’s a small price to pay for keeping the world safe, keeping our country safe,” he continued. “They can take out a city, let ’em take out Los Angeles, let ’em take out San Diego. This is a very small price to pay.”
The crowd cheered.
Look up the Powell Memo. There has been a 50 year project to dismantle government oversight of business with the aim of maximizing profits and externalizing costs and we are near its conclusion. Primarily the work of this project has been done by judges hand-picked for their ideological commitment, often through the Federalist Society. A good, more recent example is when Obama attempted to increase the salary cutoff where employers must pay overtime wages from $23k to $46k per year. Employers would just call their employees managers and get around the Davis Bacon Act and not have to pay OT to people making over $23k, even if those people were doing work that would otherwise be wage labor. A business lobbying group challenged the rule and found a federal judge in East Bumfuck, Texas who put a hold on it, and then it was killed by Trump. Democrats have effectively been controlled (via the judiciary) opposition since the 90s, but I have some hope that there are more Democrats coming up who understand what needs to be done. There is power in Congress and the White House to do something about all this, Democrats just need to wield it as freely as the Republicans do when they take power. The Biden administration was actually decent at this stuff. It’s a shame he was senile by the end and too proud to give up power to another Democrat that would have stood a chance, until it was way too late, anyway.