Trump's War on Capitalism review: a Reaganite and RFK Jr walk into a bar...

With a foreword from Robert F Kennedy Jr, David Stockman, once Ronald Reagan's budget director, delivers an unsparing attack on Donald Trump. The former president's stances on trade, social security, spending and Covid all receive a beatdown. Stockman was somewhat sympathetic to Trump when he rose to power eight years ago but has since grown hostile, posing as a keeper of the flame of Reaganism, defender of free markets and opponent of statist encroachment. Stockman's plug from RFK Jr, a former candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination now running as an independent, is noteworthy. After reminding the reader of past…