Dow dreamers show Trump's war on elites is pure fantasy | Thomas Frank

Economic advisers Larry Kudlow and Kevin Hassett represent the worst of establishment ideology - and ordinary Americans will suffer

Observers of the thousand-man wrecking crew now smashing up America's executive branch often grouse about the many ways in which it violates the "norms" of our country's politics. What impresses me as I observe the unfolding Trumptacular is the opposite: how familiar it sometimes is.

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Trump seems to be betting that the substance of the populist narrative doesn't matter as much as the rhetoric