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I just want to add a note to the blog post below, which points out that Republicans demonstrate a phony respect for the middle class during election season while, at all other times, supporting legislation works that works against the middle class’s interest.

This is how they win elections. The Republican Party has, for years, pushed policies that support the very few. That’s why they try to frame elections as questions of patriotism, of who respects and identifies with heartland Americans, of who called who a “pig.” Because if elections were about whether voters got the most benefit from Democrats or Republican being in power, Democrats would win every time.

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