Zakaria: Trump’s Abandoned Populism and We Have Returned to the 1920s with Unrestrained Capitalism

ZAKARIA: "Flash forward to president Trump today. There is no wall and his relation with China have been chummy. The main focus of his economic program has gone to return vast sums of known large corporations. In the early months of the trump Administration, Bannon must have watched with incorrected credulity, essentially handed over the reins of the government to Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell. Mcconnell is quoted as saying this president will sign whatever is put in front of him. Where did trump’s populism come from in the first place? The week to read is not wolf’s gossipy confession from Joshua green’s highly intelligent “Devil’s bargain.” He points out trump had a Mish mash of political views. He went on talk radio and realized it was not economics but social and cultural issues like immigration that got the crowds fired up. Trump was indifferent to the idea of a wall, according to green. But campaign aide is saying when trump tried the idea out for the first time the place went nuts. And trump adopted these issues far more than his competitors. He distinguished himself by taking on the most hard-line positions and thus winning over the GOP base. I don’t agree with many of Steve Bannon’s proposal but he surely right in recognizing the populace fury that runs through a large swath of the country. What wonders what will thiept as time passes and trump’s voters noticed they ended up with something quite different than they had imagined. During the presidential transition Bannon told wolf that the trump era would be like America in the 1930s with a massive public works program that would get blue collar workers back in shipyard, mills and mines. Instead we appear to have a return to the 1920s, an era of unrestrained capitalism, a shrunken state. Is this what the laid off steel worker in Ohio voted for. For more go to cnn/fareed zakaria. Let’s get started."