Transcript: Trump Erupts in Crazed Tirade Over 2026 as GOP Panic Grows
But I just want to emphasize this point, Monica. Trump’s takeover of the Republican Party was supposed to mean a rejection of the Republican Party’s plutocratic, anti-safety net policies, right? Trump himself has kind of talked a fair game when it comes to people’s health care. He spoke a little differently than Paul Ryan, let’s say, at least rhetorically. And maybe that’s why he won in 2016, but they’ve had literally a decade to sort this out – to figure out their own answer to this – and they’re still lost. I just don’t understand.
Potts: Yeah. I think, rhetorically, Trump is pretending to talk about these things. He knew how to rally around a sort of working-class ideal, like an image of what the working class was in the past. And he’s traveled to factories, and sometimes he puts on a helmet and gets in a truck, and he talks about what he considers to be manly jobs. And that’s always been a very masculine, retro image of what it means to work in America, and it’s also ignored to some extent the realities of working class America, which is that these are service jobs, and health care jobs, and education jobs, and the kinds of jobs that women do a lot of as well. And the American working class really needs a lot of help, and America is a diverse country. And I think for Trump, this kind of callback to this false sense of nostalgia worked in 2016, and it’s going to stop working soon. And I think maybe that’s what the Republican Party sees, is that there will be a time after Trump. He’s not a magician.
Sergeant: Yeah, you know you could actually watch Trump terrorizes of immigrant communities like a piece with that, because like you said, Asset somehow presents this idealized image – idealized from his point of view – the image of working classes so heavily whitestrongly malehighly concentrated in industrial workIn Fossil Fuel Extraction in Appalachiathat sort of thing. But the working class today, it’s really very diverse. It’s heavy immigrant component to this.
