Behind Trump and DOGE’s Reckless Destruction Is a Determination to Crush Workers
“As a prologue to this, it would seem, Trump is already lining his pockets with cryptocurrency by openly selling access to the White House to his top investors. Not to mention that his new regime is essentially defined by its yawning multitude of conflicts of interest. It’s clear that its strikes on labor are coming in tandem with the sort of systematic corporate-government melding (which is, incidentally, a definition of fascism, offered by someone who would know [politicalresearch.org]) that is intended to enrich investors at the expense of the civil service and the U.S. public. It’s often been noted that the central characteristic of the Trump administration, reflective of the man himself, is its eagerly corrupt self-dealing; this ends up pairing nicely with an extreme hostility to labor that also pleases the capitalist class, such that those two overarching ambitions go, naturally, hand in hand.”