TRUMP ASSAILS CORPORATE LOBBYISTS

“ . . . one of the two eventual winners of
the New Hampshire primaries assailed the power of
corporate lobbyists over the US. government, labelling them

‘bloodsuckers.’ He attacked defense contractors for forcing the
government to buy missiles it didn't need. He blasted oil companies and insurers. And he vowed to use the bargaining power of the US. government to drive down drug prices. Surprisingly, this was a speech not by the democratic-socialist Bernie Sanders but, rather, by the self-proclaimed billionaire Donald Trump.

. . . . “more interesting is the fact that they're also channelling profound disaffection with decades of American economic
policy. Trump and Sanders are popular not just because they're expressing people's anger but because they offer timely
critiques of American capitalism.”

James Surowiecki, “Economic Populism at the Primaries,” New Yorker, February 28, 2016, page 21.