Speaking of the "right-wing populist":
Meyerson on TAP: Would J.D. Vance Join a UAW Picket Line Outside a Tesla Factory?
"Touching as Vance’s repeated pledges to have the backs of the autoworkers and steelworkers of Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin may have been, he doesn’t owe them his new pre-eminence.
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The people he owes are the billionaires of Silicon Valley, whose wealth far eclipses the mere millionaires of Wall Street.
"Wall Street—old capital—was assiduously lobbying Trump not to pick Vance, who has opposed much of the global capital regime they had created.
"But the day before Trump finally made his choice, he
got a call from someone he’d not heard from in a long time: Elon Musk, who weighed in emphatically on Vance’s behalf.
"The next day, immediately following Trump’s announcement that Vance was his pick, Musk told
The Wall Street Journal that he’d be donating $45 million
a month to a pro-Trump PAC."