Everyone feels like they’re getting screwed while elites rake it in.
“Billionaires are doing crazy tax loopholes. Politicians’ foundations are corrupt money laundering schemes. Public servants trade stocks with inside information.”
Infrastructure decisions offer people an opportunity to push back on a system that they’ve grown hate.
This used to be politicized in a manner that kept it somewhat small and fractured.
But now it doesn’t matter whether it’s data centers or solar or nuclear or gas pipelines. It’s all getting rolled up into one big populist target.