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Robert Reich:

https://www.facebook.com/RBReich/posts/1189496694396258

We can't rebuild the middle class when giant corporations and Wall Street make the rules. We can’t have a sensible foreign policy when giant military contractors have disproportionate influence. We can’t have a sensible health care system without limiting the power of pharmaceutical companies and for-profit insurers.

Thomas Palley:

http://www.thomaspalley.com/?p=861

However, absent the darkest of outcomes, the Republican rebellion is of less lasting political significance for two reasons.

First, it does not fundamentally challenge the neoliberal economic model that is the root cause of popular anger on all sides. Nationalism, racism, evangelism, and cultural atavism scratch the scapegoat itch , but they do not challenge Corporate America’s and Wall Street’s domination which sustains neoliberalism.

Second, and more importantly, the Republican rebellion does not change the party’s pre-existing political trajectory and relies on electoral forces that are peaking out.