Note the Trumpist pivot to being anti-Wall Street again now Trump has lost.
https://twitter.com/profthomlambert/status/1357192882676002817
It's hard to remember now, but Trump's hyper-populist 2016 campaign attacked Wall Street, big business, the banks, the Saudis... his strongest attack on Hillary was that she was in the pocket of business.
As soon as he was elected, Trump started sucking up to the Saudis, appointed a bunch of Wall Street types to key posts, weakened banking regulations and gave these companies huge tax cuts. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
The most hardcore Trumpist base, the alt-Rightish chan types, who saw Trump primarily as a source of nationalist disruption, never liked this pivot. They blamed it on Globalists, Jews and the Deep State. Of course Trump opposes the banks, but what can he do?
A part of this tendency ends up becoming early QAnon. A part morphed into the Boogaloo movement who want to burn it all down. A part became core MAGA types who trusted Trump but still fumed at the wealthy, the banks etc.
Now Trump's out of office, this MAGA base is rediscovering its anti-establishment roots. Some of these guys supported Ron Paul in 2012, Bernie in 2015 and Trump in 2016. Three different political tendencies that all oppose 'the system'.
Trumpist forums treated the GameStop stuff as if it was a MAGA movement. Of course, it wasn't. But they saw it as part of the same political trend, attacking the people who "fix the markets like they fixed the election".
And now Ted Cruz and Josh Hawley are jumping on-board too. Do they genuinely believe in Wall Street reform? Because it seems like it's just a cynical attempt to appear down with the kids.
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