"It lacks the elegance of greed is good, but as a distillation of the spirit of the age, it's right up there. I feel liberated, a top banker told the Financial Times shortly after Donald Trump's victory in the 2024 US presidential election. We can say retard' and pussy' without the fear of getting cancelled it's a new dawn. So that's what they meant by vibe shift."
"Though, as the Epstein files reveal daily, the top 0.01% were hardly primly biting their tongues before Trump's win, at least not in private. Those with telephone-number fortunes and great power felt able to speak, and write, to each other about women in language so vicious, so filled with hate women discussed as body parts, as less than human, in Gordon Brown's apt phrase that they didn't need the encouragement of a grab 'em by the pussy president to cast off their inhibitions."
"Still, as that unnamed banker made clear to the FT, women are not the only group the powerful and privileged have been itching to disparage. This week it was migrants who were the target, accused by the billionaire Monaco resident Sir Jim Ratcliffe of having colonised Britain. He may have got his stats wrong he was in quite a muddle about the size of the UK population but he did usefully debunk one stubbornly persistent assumption."
After Donald Trump's 2024 victory, some members of the elite felt liberated to use offensive slurs without fear of cancellation. Public revelations about Epstein-era contacts show the top 0.01% already spoke about women in vicious, dehumanising terms in private, treating women as body parts and less than human. Powerful individuals have long targeted other groups as well, with migrants recently attacked by billionaire Sir Jim Ratcliffe as having 'colonised' Britain. Anti-immigrant sentiment does not correlate with low income; wealthier, affluent voters increasingly name immigration as their primary concern. The trend reflects cultural and status-driven hostility rather than straightforward economic anxiety.
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