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*‘“It would be interesting to see to what degree the New York liberals change Trump and to what degree Trump changes the New York liberals.”’* So spoke Newt Gingrich and, no, he was not talking about liberals like Bernie Sanders or Barbara Lee. He was talking about the social liberals who populate Wall St. vs. the far right ideologues like Bannon who are so influential on Wall St. This comment comes from an extremely interesting article in the Washington Post – one that’s more than worth reading in full. The article describes the relationship between Bannon and Priebus, on one side and Gary Cohn, Trump’s chief economics advisor and Dina Powell, Deputy National Security Advisor. Both Cohn and Powell are former executives at Goldman Sachs, and according to the article they are close to Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and Secretary of State Rex Tillerson. As such, a tug of war is going on within Trump’s White House between this group – representatives of finance capital – the right wing ideologues. Behind that lies the struggle between the mainstream of the US capitalist class and the far right ideologues, first and foremost over trade policy, but also over issues such as the relationship with Russia, and domestic policies like mass deportation of undocumented immigrants, the building of The Wall, etc. In general, the mainstream capitalists wish that Trump would cool it a little bit, but as the article says, “For the most part so far, the ideologues are winning.” See rest of article here: https://oaklandsocialist.com/2017/03/19/trump-white-house-ideologues-and-finance-capitalists/ John Reimann -- "No one is going to give you the education you need to overthrow them." Asata Shakur Check out:https:http://oaklandsocialist.com and // www.facebook.com/WorkersIntlNetwork?ref=stream _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
