America’s Broken Politics Is Breaking Economics, Too
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2025-07-01/america-s-broken-politics-is-breaking-economics-too
Disputes over economic policy are no longer between right and left, but between populist and centrist.
Thom Tillis Knew What the GOP Refused to Hear
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2025-07-01/on-senate-tax-bill-thom-tillis-knew-what-the-gop-refused-to-hear
The GOP reconciliation bill is forcing independent-minded Republicans to make hard choices — like whether to stay in politics at all.
Trump’s True Colors, Revealed
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/01/opinion/trump-big-beautiful-bill-populism.html
The Trump tax-and-spending bill comes in the wake of one of the most significant developments in American politics over the past quarter-century: The Republican Party, once the representative of Wall Street and Main Street, has become the party of low-income white America while remaining committed to the trickle-down economic policies of the 1980s.
“The ongoing shift of the class profile of the two parties has radically changed the character of Republican and Democratic areas of the country,” Jacob Hacker, a political scientist at Yale, wrote by email. “Districts represented by Republican members of Congress — as well as counties that supported Trump in the last election — are poorer, more rural, less dense, have fewer college graduates and are more likely to be in areas scarred by deindustrialization.”
Related:
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/07/01/trump-healthcare-cuts-risk-turning-rural-poor-off-maga/