The United States, like many countries around the world, seems to have entered a period

of broad and deep discontent.

Much of this discontent is related to economic issues, some of them specific, like wage

stagnation and the spike in healthcare and college costs, and others are more systemic,

like inequality and crony capitalism.

This discontent has grown into an indictment of our entire political and economic system,

with multiple constituencies harboring multiple grievances, some overlapping, others in deep

conflict.

I'm telling you nothing here, you don't already know.

You also know that different actors have harnessed this discontent in an attempt to steer

the country in different directions.

This most successful to date is Donald Trump, who in 2016 defied just about every prediction

on earth to win the U.S. presidency.

Now that he's facing re-election, his democratic opponents are trying to direct the discontent

in their direction, with some of them calling to fundamentally remake the American economy.

Trump's supporters find this absurd.

All the Democrats running for president want to radically transform this country that has

accumulated more wealth that has advanced the human condition more than any other country

in the history of mankind.

One of Trump's most formidable democratic opponents at this point is, in fact, a long-time

registered independent from our Senator Bernie Sanders.

We now have an economy that is fundamentally broken and grotesquely unfail.

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