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>>19735419
Also the divisions within the capitalist class also helps explain Trump's election, as the GOP primary in 2016 was split in different ways. There was Jeb Bush, the favored candidate of the Chamber of Commerce wing (more favorable to services and tech), and also Ted Cruz, the favored candidate of the Koch-aligned Americans for Prosperity which bankrolled the Tea Party.

What does Koch Industries do?

>Its subsidiaries are involved in the manufacturing, refining, and distribution of petroleum, chemicals, energy, fiber, intermediates and polymers, minerals, fertilizers, pulp and paper, chemical technology equipment, ranching, finance, commodities trading, and investing.

So with these two divided capitalist factions at loggerheads, that provided an opportunity for Donald Trump, a self-starting billionaire and political entrepreneur, to capture the party. Trump contradicted both wings' individual interests, however, he was preferable to a Democratic administration so he protected their collective interests. Yet, as pointed out here >>19735217 he exposed the bizarre contradiction at the heart of contemporary conservatism -- his impulse was always to double down which has also been the tendency of the right when facing its own contradictions (such as between stable communities and the economic policies they favor). So you get this intense pro-business and pro-capitalist ideology that doubles down on itself, while also a really intense culture war doubling down from the right even though both of those things are in contradiction with each other.

That's not a stable particle.