The More Things Change, the More They Stay Rigged

http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/news/a57282/trump-tax-plan-not-populist/
"Under no circumstances can this plan be called "populist" unless the definition of that word has been changed to "whatever we can get the rubes to believe." The first round will come from the House, where zombie-eyed granny starver Speaker Paul Ryan is putatively in charge, and nobody believes in the supply-side fairy more fervently than he does. That bill will be a horror in many levels. The president* might even call it mean."