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Dear Friend,
To keep the gravy train going for mostly white 1-percenters and prop up the plutocracy, political leaders are using toxic populism with a racially infused culture-war strategy to stay in power—a strategy led by Trump and playing out daily in his tweet storms, according to political scientists and authors of Let Them Eat Tweets Jacob S. Hacker and Paul Pierson.
Join Hacker and Pierson for a discussion about their book, followed by a panel of EPI experts on what can be done to derail this distorted political influence by the rich and derail rising inequality. EPI President Thea Lee will moderate, and EPI’s Larry Mishel, distinguished fellow, and Jaimie Worker, senior state policy coordinator for the Economic Analysis and Research Network (EARN) at EPI, will also be panelists.
“The historical record reveals a clear pattern. Whenever economic elites have grossly disproportionate power and come to see their economic interest as opposed to those of ordinary citizens, they are likely to promote social division,” they write.
Register for the book discussion on Let Them Eat Tweets, followed by a panel on derailing distorted political influence and rising inequality.
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