While both major parties once primarily served corporate interests, the Republican Party has become the party of Plutocrats.
Corporations seek stability; Plutocrats thrive on chaos. Their model is post-Communist Russia, where the collapse of the state enabled politically connected elites to seize and privatize public assets. Their goal is to restructure national political and economic relationships to consolidate power and control over the rest of us. Their primary strategy is to transform public rights into private privileges over which they have control.
One of the clearest examples is healthcare: when access depends on staying in an employer’s good graces, employers gain immense leverage over individuals' lives. Trump has repeatedly prioritized eliminating the Affordable Care Act, reinforcing a system where healthcare is a privilege rather than a right. More immediately, his threats to Social Security and Medicaid signal an intent to erode even the most basic guarantees of financial security.
Similarly, by weakening labor protections and obstructing unions, Trump has empowered employers to dictate working conditions with minimal resistance. In education, his push to defund public schools while promoting charter schools and voucher programs diverts public funds into private hands, further deepening inequality. His relentless attacks on academic freedom, particularly in higher education, seek to suppress dissent and reshape public discourse to favor the powerful.
Trump’s harsh immigration policies also serve this agenda, making legal residency and citizenship increasingly precarious—especially for those who oppose him. When immigration status is tied to political compliance, fundamental rights become conditional on submission to authority.
Each of these efforts shifts power from the public to political and economic elites, turning rights into privileges controlled by those at the top.
