Carpe Momentum: We Must Seize This Moment

Trump didn’t break the system, he exposed it. Now it’s up to us to decide what comes next: restoration or revolution.

Richard Murphy, a British former chartered accountant and political economist who advises the Trades Union Congress on taxation and founded the Tax Justice Network, said it plainly: Trump is waging war, not on foreign enemies, but on America itself. His latest economic maneuvering isn’t mismanagement; it’s pillage. His $4 trillion tax scam, disguised as the “One Big Beautiful Bill,” is not meant to grow the economy. It’s meant to hollow it out, concentrating wealth in fewer hands, and then blaming the wreckage on the people already struggling to survive it.

Trump didn't emerge from a vacuum. He was midwifed into power by decades of bipartisan complicity: deregulation, corporate capture, endless wars, trade deals that gutted communities, and a refusal to challenge capitalism’s most predatory instincts.