MAGA's true believers don't understand capitalism — Trump will teach them a hard lesson

LZ Granderson: Too many Americans have come to believe they are owed financial comfort and material abundance.

LZ: Are you better off today than you were four years ago ? It’s an illogical question in a capitalist nation. Welcome to capitalism, a system whose proponents cite unequal outcomes as a reason for extolling it.

He says presidents, whoever they are, have very little control over inflation.

In 2008 , I was doing better financially than at any time in my life, but Donald Trump's message resonated with me.

I hadn't grasped that offshoring was a central feature of capitalism, he says.

Trump understands that capitalism operates less on merit the higher one moves up in the hierarchy, he writes.

Many on the political right choose to ignore that they already depend, or very soon will, on “socialist” safety-net programs such as Medicare , Social Security and Medicaid .

Some part of the MAGA community is aware that the reforms brought by liberalism help to keep them alive.

David Gergen : The question we can keep posing to Trump is this: How much time does he get to fix your economic problems, when you will.