Some very powerful (wealthy) people in America have been working for a long time to starve the beast of government, which they see as unfairly exploiting them to finance accomplishing the will of the people...therefore, the people must be defeated.

Americans have been losing the battle between democracy and oligarchic capitalism for half a century, one tiny defeat at a time. It adds up like compound interest, and that's how we got to the difference in outcome we see today between America and more democratic societies like Canada. Or a hundred others--America's standing as a democracy has plummeted as its GINI inequality index has risen. It's a causal thing.

eh yeah he's on to something. Liked his description of trickle-down economics as magical thinking. eh yeah!