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Robert Reich posed a simple and devastating question this week: why did the president of the United States repost a video in which a podcaster (Savage) calls the wombs of immigrant mothers a chamber pot—a bedroom, a latrine—and accuses a Chinese American citizen of wanting to turn the country into a colony of Beijing? The answer Reich doesn't explicitly give—but the material dictates—is this: because it works. Because that's exactly what the system was built to work.