I am deeply fascinated by the modern right's insistence that "the elite" is a category that does not actually include the ultra wealthy who dominate society and dictate many of its laws, and is instead made up of socialist teachers, anti-genocide protestors, and "woke" baristas.
It's always disheartening to see how much unearned faith much of the international community has in the idea that the average american is simply misguided, or that they are good hearted at their core.
Your average american is so casually evil it's almost incomprehensible.
We can implement austerity, capture foreign markets, crack down on labor; it will never satisfy the corporate need for endless profit maximization. That's why right wingers are never satisfied. They are enslaved by a social force they do not understand: Capital.