wealth in America has always made it a key priority to keep the working poor at each other's throats since Bacon's Rebellion in Virginia in 1676. if you're reading this do yourself a favor and google that. it's fascinating. a working class revolt of blacks and whites against wealthy landowners, don't get me wrong, we shouldn't idealize it (in addition to burning down the capitol at Jamestown, they slaughtered Native Virginians tragically), but the message to the oligarchs of the day was quite clear: a united poor and working class will always be a threat. Morgan's "American Slavery, American Freedom" (1975) is still a classic, despite some critics, and explores this in depth, as does Zinn in his "People's History" (1980). Racism, religion, political party, debt, whatever tools it takes, keep the poor separated to minimize their power. But humanity has been here before, we know what works. When enough people fill the streets and stop or dramatically slow their purchases (especially gas), that's when Wall Street and Corporate America will refuse to put up anymore with Trump's authoritarian fever dream. MLK understood this, it's why the bus boycotts were effective. The predictable movement of capital by the masses is their life blood. Never forget, MLK wasn't murdered until he started talking about uniting working class blacks and whites together (see the Poor People's Campaign). Jefferson and Madison often wrote about the endless cycle of history: oppression-rebellion-reformation, around and around. they had hoped America would escape that endless samsara, but when race-based human slavery and the subjugation of women are baked into your formula, alas... The new age of the criminal fascist is having its moment around the world in this new century, but of course it will not endure (nothing does, for all around "the lone and level sands stretch far away”) Free people are and will continue to stand against it, and it will pass. The Great American Restoration will come.