Some here in the D.C. swamp are breathing a sigh of hope because Stephen K. Bannon is in the timeout chair this week, and Trump’s 36-year-old son-in-law and his Wall Street allies are running the country for the next few days.

Should you be? Should you step out again in front of the bus that has run you over every one of the days Trump has been president?

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Trump has been backing up lately and managed at least six flip-flops in one day yesterday. This is being taken by some as proof that Trump is coming around. Around to what? Around to conventional Republican policies? Let’s not forget what those are. They’re the same ones Trump has been implicitly about all along. Health care? Destroy it. Tax reform? The rich need more massive tax cuts. Climate? Destroy it. Money in politics? Open the spillway. Voting rights? Throttle them. Are we supposed to wish him best of luck?

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Trump and the rest of the GOP jostle each other, but they are working together because they have their eye on the ball. And that is to drive wealth-inequality up to democracy-crushing levels. If you doubt it, here is a simple test. Just watch them. What is the one thing they all agree on? What is the one consequence all of their economic policy initiatives have in common? Tax cuts and regulation cuts for the extremely wealthy. I’ll repeat that in case a 300-word blog post is testing your attention span. Tax cuts and regulation cuts for the extremely wealthy. That’s the program. The rest is distraction, and Trump excels at distraction.

Is this class warfare? It sure is. On us.

If what the program takes is making common cause with an ignorant, petulant, unstable, cruel, lying charlatan, so be it! If the ruin of the American democracy is the price they have to pay for their infinite pile of personal treasure, it’s a bargain.