Must-Read: Ben Smith: The Plan To Save Capitalism From Donald Trump:
At a private gathering of wealthy Republicans this June, a banker named Edward Conard made a radical proposal...
...To save capitalism from Donald Trump, American business leaders would need to abandon old allies and make an “odious” new deal with low-wage workers. “If advocates of the free enterprise want to regain control of the Republican Party … we need to find middle ground with these workers,” Conard. “The question is: How do we build a coalition with displaced workers like we did with the religious right after Roe vs. Wade, and which we used to lower the marginal tax rate from 70% to 28%?”...
