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I’m afraid the answer is that he has been very successful in pursuing the goals that he and his allies wanted to achieve. People aren’t grasping this because they wrongly assume those goals included things like “fix some of the damage done”, “make people’s lives somewhat better” or “be popular”.

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The top 0.1% of Americans control $22 trillion in wealth. The bottom 50% control $3.8 trillion in wealth. Read that back. Folks, this is what oligarchy looks like.

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The privatisation of the post office has been a disaster for its customers. Price hikes and an increasingly poor and stripped back service. Bring it back into public hands.

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Nearly two-thirds of working private renters in England struggle to pay rent A combination of real wage cuts, austerity, profiteering, lack of social housing takes toll. Govts under the thumb of corporations neglect low income families, create misery www.theguardian.com/society/2024...

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