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New Right Wing of the Republican Party Proclaims Themselves Champions of the Working Class

How better to help ordinary Americans than by raising their cost of living?

Jack Corn via Wikimedia Commons
Coal miners leaving a Virginia mine in 1974. Jack Corn via Wikimedia Commons
VERONIQUE de RUGY
VERONIQUE de RUGY

Members of the new right wing of the Republican Party have proclaimed themselves the champions of the working class. I am sure they mean it, despite many of them being among the elite of the elite.

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VERONIQUE de RUGY
VERONIQUE de RUGY

Veronique de Rugy is the George Gibbs Chair in Political Economy and a senior research fellow at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University.

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