Trump’s So-Called ‘Main Street Miracle’ Is a Trojan Horse for Financial Fascism

While my colleague Sam Clemons paints a picture of patriotic shopkeepers rebuilding America with bare hands and bootstrap dreams, let me offer a dose of reality: Main Street isn’t rising—it’s being drafted into Trump and Musk’s economic war machine. And if we don’t start seeing through the propaganda, Democrats, progressives, and anyone not singing from the MAGA hymnbook will be locked out of the economy altogether. Main Street’s “Comeback” Is a Rebranding of Financial Censorship Sam touts deregulation and anti-DEI sentiment as signs of a booming economy. But what he’s really celebrating is the institutionalization of discrimination, the silencing of dissent, and the funneling of capital to Trump-friendly cronies. This isn’t Reaganomics—it’s retributionomics. It’s not a small business boom. It’s…