Opinion | Trump's Biggest Con: Pretending to Support American Workers

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

51% : Kamala Harris is, in this sense, a normal Democrat, calling for tax hikes that would primarily affect high-income Americans while expanding tax credits for families with children; she has also proposed expanding Medicare to cover home health care for seniors, which would be a big deal for millions of families.
51% : Trump, then, is anything but pro-working-class Americans.
47% : If Trump has broken with standard G.O.P. economic policy, he has done so by intensifying efforts to redistribute income upward.
44% : This self-portrait has been successful so far, notably in gaining Trump significant support among working-class people of color -- although the carnival of racism at his Sunday rally at Madison Square Garden in New York, in which a comedian opened the event by describing Puerto Rico as an "island of garbage" and made a watermelon joke in reference to a Black man, may dent that support in the campaign's closing days.
37% : And while he says that he won't cut Social Security and Medicare, his policy proposals would undermine these programs' financial foundations.
34% : So, no, Trump isn't a friend to working-class Americans; quite the opposite.
33% : Trump has also made some tax proposals that may sound pro-worker but aren't, such as ending taxes on tips; many tipped workers don't make enough to pay income taxes, and those who do are mostly in a low tax bracket.
21% : Has Trump deviated from Republican norms?
10% : As president, Trump tried to push through deep cuts in Medicaid, although he didn't succeed.
8% : Trump would raise taxes on most Americans, with only the top few percent coming out ahead; Harris would do the reverse.

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