OneView In 2022 only 33.6%  of Americans made over 100K.  Only about 15% made over 150K. In most major cities, housing alone eats up most of that money.  There's no super majority that's wealthy enough not to care about economic issues.  The point of this column was not that greed was ever the GOP mantra.   It is that greed was the motivation behind the GOPs establishment/donors, while their mantra was the various social and cultural issues that their media magicians realized did have enough support to win, among people who would have voted against the economic message that low taxes on the rich and limited social programs was the path to prosperity for all.

OneView In 2022 only 33.6%  of Americans made over 100K.  Only about 15% made over 150K. In most major cities, housing alone eats up most of that money.  There's no super majority that's wealthy enough not to care about economic issues.  The point of this column was not that greed was ever the GOP mantra.   It is that greed was the motivation behind the GOPs establishment/donors, while their mantra was the various social and cultural issues that their media magicians realized did have enough support to win, among people who would have voted against the economic message that low taxes on the rich and limited social programs was the path to prosperity for all.

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