"All indications are that Mr. [Jeb] Bush’s attacks on Mr. Trump are falling flat, because the Republican base doesn’t actually share the Republican establishment’s economic delusions," Krugman wrote. "The thing is, we didn’t really know that until Mr. Trump came along. The influence of big-money donors meant that nobody could make a serious play for the G.O.P. nomination without pledging allegiance to supply-side doctrine, and this allowed the establishment to imagine that ordinary voters shared its antipopulist creed."
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) even praised Trump's tax position on ABC's "The View" on Tuesday. Like Chait and Krugman, she suggested Trump is actually very much in-tune with the GOP base: "Don't call us liberal. It is a pretty right position."
She's right. Trump has the underdog card going for him. Say what you will about him, but Trump isn't being payed by major companies like other candidates. Sanders doesn't have huge donations being thrown at him either.
Most Republicans are not pro wall street elitists. If anything the party is split along this line but only the establishment elite care enough to fight for it. Not to mention there are plenty of Liberal elites that also rake in money from wall street.
This is why when Trump says he is going to make the hedge funds pay and close the tax loopholes he gets wide support from the left and the right because it really is a positions people in both parties share.
He's right on the economic issues. Trump knows that vodoo economics doesn't work. Look at how the rich have only gotten richer and everyone else is barely getting by since 1980.
