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Trump’s presidency has marked the apotheosis of elite victimization. Unlike previous exponents, he doesn’t even bother connecting it to a broader political worldview. It’s an identity in which he wallows & a mantra: I am a victim and, by extension, those who love me are as well. https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1335401627050795008
Trump draws on a long tradition of unwarranted victimization. One of the best examples is when NY Gov. Tom Dewey, one-time and future GOP presidential candidate, told a group of leading businessmen at a fancy dinner in 1947 that they were "fellow victims of the New Deal."/2
Rep Harold Cooley (D-NC) mocked Dewey and the rich business elite by saying that with their combined salary "they could buy a lot of medicine to ease the pain of being a victim of the New Deal." /3
Lewis F. Powell Jr.s Confidential Memorandum of 1971 called the "the American business executive...truly the `forgotten man'" and expressed concern about the "near-contempt with which businessmen's views are held." /4 https://scholarlycommons.law.wlu.edu/powellmemo/1/
