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With McCarthy, the Trump coalition of MAGAs and oligarchs lives on

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The House MAGAs will spend most of their energies on fiery culture war investigations "of Joe Biden, Hunter Biden, the FBI, the IRS, other Democrats, and alleged socialists and pedophiles. The fireworks will conveniently distract the public's attention from the oligarch's economic looting.

Trump continues to be the central force pulling together this coalition of economic oligarchs and MAGA culture warriors. Speaking to reporters after he became Speaker, McCarthy was effusive in thanking Trump, who backed him for Speaker after McCarthy helped rescue Trump by visiting him at Mar-a-Lago after the attack on the Capitol. "I don't think anybody should doubt his influence," McCarthy said. "I was just talking to him tonight, helping get those final votes."

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Robert Reich, former U.S. Secretary of Labor and Professor of Public Policy at the University of California at Berkeley, has a new film, "Inequality for All," to be released September 27. He blogs at www.robertreich.org.

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