Juan Cole | Yes, America, There Is a Class War, and You Just Lost It



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House Speaker Paul Ryan and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. (photo: Drew Angerer/Getty Images) 
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Cole writes: "The Republican Party did not just overhaul the tax code and they did not cut 'your' taxes. They engineered a coup against the middle and working classes and they threw enormous amounts of public money to private billionaires and multi-millionaires." 
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