MSNBC. David Sirota exposes Trump’s fake populism and how he’s just another country club Republican. Posted: February 24, 2025 | Last updated: March 19, 2025 ...

The country club Republican Party of the 1990s and 2000s — white, upper-class, suburban — has been demolished as the GOP has grown more working-class, more populist and more diverse.

This time, the convention made it clear that the old business-dominated, “country club” Republican Party of Richard M. Nixon, Ronald Reagan and the two George Bushes is long gone.

Under the guise of “cutting waste” and “streamlining government,” Donald Trump and Elon Musk are fulfilling the Republican Party and The Heritage Foundation’s decades-long quest to ...