Cui bono Trump? Whose interest does he serve? As Ivan Krastev has noted, he is serving his own interests in grotesque fashion. But what about other people? We know from the brutal closure of USAID that he cares not a jot for the poor overseas. But does he show concern for the ordinary Americans who voted for him? The One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) wending its way through Congress shows that the answer is “no”. It is a powerful example of “pluto-populism” (“plutocratic populism”), as I first called it back in 2006. The rich receive most of the goodies; the poor become poorer; and the fiscal deficit stays huge.
川普(Trump)讓什麼人得益？他服務於誰的利益？正如伊萬•克拉斯特夫(Ivan Krastev)指出的那樣，他在用一種荒唐的方式服務於自己的利益。但其他人呢？我們從美國國際開發署(USAID)被粗暴關閉就知道，他一點不關心海外窮人。但他是否對投票給他的普通美國人表現出關心？「大而美」法案(One Big Beautiful Bill Act)在國會的順利通過顯示出，這個問題的答案是「否」。這是「財閥民粹主義」(pluto-populism)的強有力案例——我在2006年首次提出了這個詞。富人得到大部分好處；窮人變得更窮；財政赤字仍然巨大。