Racism and wealth redistribution
Socialism in the MAGA mind is anything that redistributes wealth from the billionaires to working people. But you might be thinking: Why would white workers who are a part of the MACA base and struggling for some semblance of economic security be opposed to wealth redistribution that would benefit them and, instead, buy into the claim that any form of redistributive economics by the government is socialism?
The answer, or at least a good part of the answer, is RACISM, that is, the false understanding on the part of white workers in the MAGA movement that redistributive — “socialist” — measures of any kind transfer wealth from white people — white workers first of all — who have earned it to Black and Brown people who haven’t.
Moreover, anybody that supports such measures — and at this moment it is Kamala Harris and Tim Walz, say Trump and Vance — are a “socialist” or a “communist” or a “Marxist.”
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