Cory Doctorow on the multi-level scam that is America's right wing.
https://pluralistic.net/2025/07/22/all-day-suckers/#i-love-the-poorly-educated
'Trump was elected by the people who rip off the frightened and angry: cryptocurrency hustlers ("the dollar is gonna collapse!"), sports gambling moguls, and anti-DEI peddlers ("lesser people have been elevated to power by social justice warriors and they'll kill us all") ...
Trump is the head of a cult that has figured out how to turn fear, precarity and pain into the top of a sales funnel that destroys anyone who gets caught in it.'