People are like "why would these supposedly pro business Republicans be cutting funding for public universities that are huge economic growth engines" and like look at how the richest states vote and how the poorest states vote. If you were a Republican would you want your state to become wealthier?
That motherfucker was never an ally to workers and would have changed his tune as fast as any of our current motherfuckers if he'd seen a REAL regulatory state.
Dude helped kill over 2,000 people in a flood caused by his personal country club that caused millions in damages and donated $1,000 in blankets and one of his self-named tax write-off libraries in recompense
Absolutely one of earth's all-time scumbags
I read a whole novel about that when I was a kid but I don’t remember the cause of it in there, but maybe I wasn’t as attuned to class struggle when I was 12
