As more than $50 trillion moved from the bottom 90% of Americans to the top 1% between 1981 and 2021, Republicans deflected attention from the hollowing out of the middle class by demonizing racial, religious, and gender minorities.
I’m no historian or expert in any way, but I always feel like all of our problems boil down to the Reagan presidency where the failed experiment of trickle down economics and the rising costs of higher education completely derailed democracy and we are still living with the results of that.