A friend pointed me to this interesting commentary by Robert Reich.
The Big Picture: How we got into this mess, and how we get out of it.
Capitalism is compatible with democracy only if democracy is the dominant partner. It was dominant from 1933 until 1980. Then hyper-capitalism took over, and finally gave us Trump. Donald Trump isn’t the cause of what ails America. He’s the consequence. The real causes go back four decades. Read the article.