WASHINGTON — The Republican Party is showing signs of softening its trademark fiscal conservative brand in favor of a new populist approach, a potentially seminal shift as the party becomes more reliant on blue-collar white voters after Donald Trump's presidency.
The last time Republicans were thrown out of power, in 2009, they embraced an unabashed tax-cutting and spending-cutting vision to find their way out of the wilderness. Now, the party is taking a different path as ambitious figures seek to curry favor with voters by pushing a larger government safety-net that includes cash to families and a minimum wage hike.
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Opinion | The MAGA phenomenon has never been about economics - The Washington Post
The New York Times gives the GOP too much credit when it declares that "Republicans have offered very little to advance the economic interests of blue-collar workers." The phrase "offered very little" suggests they have been trying but just haven't managed to come up with something. In reality, they have not been trying to enact a populist agenda.
Let's review: Republicans backed a tax cut under the last administration that primarily benefited the rich and corporations; attempted to strip health-care coverage from tens of millions of Americans by repealing the Affordable Care Act; and insisted that front-line workers, the elderly and others prioritize the "economy" (i.e. the stock market) over their own health while downplaying the pandemic that has disproportionately affected lower-wage workers.
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The mom got so upset during the lesson on "money, power and respect," she grabbed her son's laptop and yelled at Deyate Hagood, a social studies teacher at A-TECH High School in Williamsburg, for wasting valuable instructional time.
"You honestly ought to be motherf–king embarrassed. Disgusting!" she shouted at Hagood, infuriated by the videos and lame discussion.
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The clash — which was videotaped by the son — shines a light on what the mom called "lazy" remote instruction in a low-performing NYC high school, and the plight of teens stuck on screens but learning little during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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With $1.9 trillion in coronavirus relief on the line, President Joe Biden and fellow Democrats are depicting an economy still in the grips of widespread crisis, while Republicans see the ingredients in place for a solid recovery that needs only limited additional aid.
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Greensill, founded just ten years ago, boasted it could help companies "unlock capital". Using techniques mastered by erstwhile slicers-and-dicers of subprime mortgages, it transformed the bills it took on into bond-like investments. These could be sold to outside investors, such as hedge funds, desperate to find some yield in a low-interest world. As long as the customers kept settling their invoices, a tidy profit could be made for investors—and the financiers behind all the alchemy.
Within days Greensill itself was fighting off bankruptcy. The firm is said to have sought relief from insolvent-trading laws in Australia, where part of its corporate set-up is based (its founder, Lex Greensill, is Australian). By March 3rd it was reported by the Financial Times to be preparing to file for insolvency in Britain, where it conducts much of its business.
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