Don’t Be Fooled. They Lie as Easily as They Breathe

On how Trump and Musk’s mission “to destroy the restraints of regulatory democracy on unfettered capitalism, wherever it may have taken root in the world,” and their “preference for unregulated markets deliberately detached from democratic institutions” makes one thing clear: “capitalism is hostile to democratic processes and institutions.” Understanding this helps us recognise how, “slowly and skilfully over the last decade, the billionaire class has worked to delegitimise the slow process by which America’s democracy has widened the net of inclusion and diversity,” by “dismantling the process of inclusion and diversity” with “the propaganda campaign labelled ‘the culture wars’ — in reality a war between capital and labour.” A lesson for us: stop “actively negating the ‘culture wars’ framing” and instead celebrate “the wider democratic advance.”