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President Donald Trump\u2019s former communications director is going forward saying that his former boss is bad for America \u2014 and that even when he is gone, his legacy will endure.<\/p>\n

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\u201cTrump is a symptom, not the disease,\u201d Scaramucci posted on X on Wednesday. \u201cIf it wasn\u2019t him it would be someone else with the same narcissistic, populist impulses \u2014 because the underlying conditions that created him haven\u2019t changed.\u201d<\/p>\n

He added, \u201cThe median home in the US is $430,000. You need about $150,000 in income to cover the mortgage and have any discretionary money left. The median salary is $84,000. That\u2019s a $50,000 gap. Fifty years ago 80% of Americans could afford the dream. Today it\u2019s out of reach for at least half the country.\u201d<\/p>\n

Scaramucci argued that this rising economic inequality and suffering explains why so many Americans supported Trump.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen people feel the system is rigged against them and nobody in power is fixing it, they check out,\u201d Scaramucci said. \u201cWhen they check out long enough, someone like Trump comes along and becomes the avatar for all that anger. They adhere to him even when he\u2019s doing the exact opposite of what he promised. The idea that when Trump loses power in 2028 things revert to normal \u2014 that\u2019s not going to happen.\u201d<\/p>\n

The ex-communications director concluded that, because this dire context still exists, Trumpism is unlikely to go away even after Trump is no longer president.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe conditions that created him will still be there,\u201d Scaramucci said. \u201cUntil we fix those, we\u2019re just waiting for the next one.\u201d<\/p>\n

On Tuesday Scaramucci observed that Trump\u2019s economic policies in general are setting Americans up for a worse standard of living than they had previously known.<\/p>\n

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\u201cIf Barack Obama had done half of what Trump is doing now, Fox News would have been calling for impeachment,\u201d Anthony Scaramucci, former White House Communications Director during Trump\u2019s first term, posted on X on Tuesday. He was referring to how Trump\u2019s spending, much of it unauthorized by Congress, is on pace to reach $9 to $10 trillion by the start of 2029<\/p>\n

He added, \u201cTrump has no economic philosophy. He spent $8.2 trillion in his first term and he’s on pace for $9 to $10 trillion in this one. We’re at 100 percent debt to GDP held by investors \u2014 122 percent if you count the Fed’s balance sheet. Ray Dalio will tell you those numbers put you in sovereign debt crisis territory. And when that happens, the only way politicians are willing to pay for it is through inflation. Which is the cruelest possible outcome, because inflation is the worst tax you can impose on lower and middle income people.\u201d<\/p>\n

He even claimed his Wall Street friends oppose Trump\u2019s policies.<\/p>\n

“Trump is too dangerous,\u201d Scaramucci said earlier this month. \u201cIt\u2019s funny, all my Wall Street buddies voted for him and now they\u2019re regretting the fact,” later clarifying that “most of the people are.\u201d<\/p>\n

“I\u2019m of the belief that prices are higher,\u201d Scaramucci added. \u201cWe have an oil crisis. He imposed illegal tariffs, which raised the pricing umbrella for all the lower-middle-income people that voted for him. He\u2019s put us in a very vulnerable state as a country and an economy. If you want to make the case that the banks have record profits in the short term, sure \u2014 but he\u2019s also suing some of the banking executives. You are losing the predictive capability of our justice system \u2014 what our civil rights are, what our free speech rights are. It\u2019s very, very bad for business.”<\/p>\n

Speaking with this author for Salon in 2018, Scaramucci argued that Trump\u2019s political movement is fueled by economic suffering.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat I saw was in a generation we went from aspirational working class families, like the one I grew up in, to [desperate] working class families,\u201d Scaramucci said. \u201cWhat I saw is a decline in wages causing some level of economic asphyxiation for a very large group of people. And so Trump being out there, going into those areas, explaining the policies that he\u2019s going to put in place, and then executing on some of those policies. I mean it\u2019s not me saying, it\u2019s just go look at \u2018The Wall Street Journal.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

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