"Over the past 30 years, American politics has become more money-centred at exactly the same time that American society has grown more unequal," the political scientists
Jacob Hacker and Paul Pierson have written. The resources and organisational heft of the well-off and hyper-conservative have exploded. But the organisational resources of middle-income Americans . . . have atrophied. The resulting inequality has greatly benefited the Republican Party while drawing it closer to its most affluent and extreme supporters..."
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