President Trump speaks to Davos: "Three days ago, I took the oath of office and we began the GOLDEN AGE OF AMERICA." pic.twitter.com/jESnSDrx9J
— Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) January 23, 2025
??TRUMP: THE U.S. WAS WEALTHIEST BETWEEN 1870-1913
— Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) January 22, 2025
“Our country was at its, at its richest from, from 1870 to 1913.
That was when we were the richest, relatively speaking.
We were the richest during that period of time. That was tariffs from other countries.”
Source: Sky… https://t.co/cZSim3eq5Z pic.twitter.com/STwkqqi1kQ
The most striking parallel to the Gilded Age to me isn’t merely rich industrialists like Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos using their fortunes to influence our politics. It is the national U-turn from the moral fanaticism of Reconstruction on race to the era of materialism that succeeded it. In a few short years, the country shifted from arguing over blacks in the South to issues like the tariff and free silver.
“President Trump’s made-for-TV inauguration gave a taste of a blossoming new Gilded Age in Washington.
Why it matters: In a town whose residents overwhelmingly voted against Trump, the new Beltway elites are ensconcing themselves in their Cybertrucks, parties with the 1% and an expanding portfolio of extravagant restaurants and clubs. …
Zoom in: The table is already set. Look no further than restaurateur Stephen Starr, whose $16 million buildout of Osteria Mozza in Georgetown is attracting the likes of Jeff Bezos. For his next project, Starr plans “to resurrect a gilded era of Washington power dining with the reimagining of The Occidental,” replete with tableside martini service — “his most glamorous, decadent D.C. restaurant yet,” per his reps.
As to why he’s channeling Gilded Age glam: “People want to get dressed and feel fancy without being boring and stuffy,” says Starr, who plans the Occidental opening in the next few weeks. “Even if you’re 30, you don’t want to go to the same old hipster Brooklyn places.” …”
Apparently, some people in Washington even want to return to dressing up!
“CBS News: Is Trump Ushing In a New Gilded Age?”
I kind of doubt it; The Dissident Right, especially Nick Fuentes the other night made many good pts. Is trump intending to stop ALL immigration? No. In fact he is only going to send back very few that snuck in. He is intending to create a personalized vaccine for the whole nation; he wants to spend 500 bn for AI, why? and on and on.
He can’t stop all legal immigration.
Sure, that would be nice and ideal, but doing something like that would require Congress to go along with it. He would have to negotiate some type of deal with Democrats. I doubt they are willing to go that far. They are willing to give Trump some small ball wins like the Laken Riley Act. The Senate GOP played a similar game under Biden.
“Trump Is Leading a Global Surge to the Right”…NYT
If only it will grow and accelerate.
To my mind, America can go fascist so long as the BILL OF RIGHTS is fully maintained.
Yes, everything except that bit in the Eighth Amendment about “cruel and unusual” punishment. Cruel and unusual crimes and criminals merit cruel and unusual punishments.
No, we are already in a gilded age. We already have billionaires and oligarchs who are only getting richer. The difference between then and now is that our gilded age is hollow. The wealthy back then got rich by actually providing or making something of value, many times on the backs of exploited workers. Today, many of our ultra wealthy are rich from wheeling and dealing shekels on the stock exchange, “managing” hedge funds and the like. Nothing productive added to society.
Also back then, a generation after the gilded age, workers’ quality of life improved by many reforms and the actions of some of the wealthy (Henry Ford being the best example). Today, especially in the USA and after 100 years of productivity improvements, middle and lower classes have seen their wealth evaporate and wages steadily decreasing since about 1970.
Must agree Casper Koch: the American working man’s proverb: the rich get richer the poor poorer abd the mittel lament their responsibility of r both.
I thought the 20th century was great, the only the thing that sucked was the hoards of immigrants, everything else, the socialism, the libertinism, was way cooler than this woke neocon crap.
Like let’s do the 60s, 70s and 80s forever, but with less brown people.
The 19th century was great in a way because it was white, but everything else sucked.
The capitalism sucked, the imperialism sucked and it was too socially conservative, too uptight.
The mid-late 20th century was the sweet spot, the right balance of everything, except the immigration levels, which led to the sea of brown we have today.
But in the late 20th century even tho immigration levels were high it was still by far majority white and that’s why it was so good.
I got nothing against brown people personally I just prefer my own kind.
And I prefer not having to compete with the whole world for jobs and housing, the whole world wants to come here, and now here sucks, everything sucks now.
The left used to be cool, it was relatively pro-working class and freedom, populist, now the left sucks with its woke crap and the right is trying to be cool, they are promising all this stuff I don’t really care about and the one thing I do want them to do, which is stop immigration, they don’t do, so that’s why I hate and am through with politics, people like me aren’t represented.