Cui bono Trump? Whose interest does he serve? As Ivan Krastev has noted, he is serving his own interests in grotesque fashion. But what about other people? We know from the brutal closure of USAID that he cares not a jot for the poor overseas. But does he show concern for the ordinary Americans who voted for him? The One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) wending its way through Congress shows that the answer is “no”. It is a powerful example of “pluto-populism” (“plutocratic populism”), as I first called it back in 2006. The rich receive most of the goodies; the poor become poorer; and the fiscal deficit stays huge.
特朗普(Trump)让什么人得益？他服务于谁的利益？正如伊万•克拉斯特夫(Ivan Krastev)指出的那样，他在用一种荒唐的方式服务于自己的利益。但其他人呢？我们从美国国际开发署(USAID)被粗暴关闭就知道，他一点不关心海外穷人。但他是否对投票给他的普通美国人表现出关心？“大而美”法案(One Big Beautiful Bill Act)在国会的顺利通过显示出，这个问题的答案是“否”。这是“财阀民粹主义”(pluto-populism)的强有力案例——我在2006年首次提出了这个词。富人得到大部分好处；穷人变得更穷；财政赤字仍然巨大。