Trump’s cabinet isn’t as anti-Wall Street as voters might want to believe | Robert Reich
The man Trump has tapped as US treasury secretary was only recently derided by Elon Musk as the ‘business-as-usual choice’
Will anything stop Trump?
He’s got control over both chambers of Congress, a tractable supreme court, a political base of fiercely loyal Magas, a media ecosystem that amplifies his lies (now including Musk’s horrific X as well as Rupert Murdoch’s reliably mendacious Fox News) and a thin majority of voters in the 2024 election.
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