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Now if he said "wall street" or "corporations" or "Banks" and people tried to say it was a code word I'd be right there with you, but he didnt

He did say corporations and Wall Street. “And yes, in this bargain there are lots of jobs—jobs on Wall Street, or in Hollywood, or in Silicon Valley. Because the truth is, the cosmopolitan economy has made the cosmopolitan class an aristocracy.”

There is an entire American tradition of right-wing nationalist language that frames a herrenvolk middle against an underclass of racial and ethnic others and an overclass of the wealthy, defined primarily as cultural elites and often identified as Jews.

It seems much easier to believe that the right-wing evangelical Republican is tapping into that vein of American thought rather than embracing some left-wing critique of the extant economy.

Especially since Hawley is as reliably anti-immigrant and anti-safety net as any other Trump-era Republican, and seems to want to use the state to bolster traditionalist morality and protect local sources of hierarchy and authority.

I have paid close attention to Hawley. He’s not your standard Republican. He’s the only Republican who went after the FTC for laxity in dealing with FB. He attacked corporate concentration in general.

This is completely unresponsive to the observation that Hawley's anti-corporate language is in service of what seems to be a herrenvolk conception of the American populace. Are you so focused on your hobbyhorse that you can't see this?

Evangelicals were part of the Roosevelt coalition. And Hawley’s rhetoric is nowhere near Roosevelt’s first inaugural, a ‘day of national consecration’ in which he denounced ‘the money changers’ in ‘the high seats of the Temple.’