Never forget the history of politics and never forget which side we’re on. We’re on the side of making profits. We’re on the side of people owning private capital.
– Peter Reith, Liberal minister for workplace relations, addressing a business lunch in 1998
Lance Selfa, journalist at US website SocialistWorker.org and author of The Democrats: a critical history, looks at the victories of Donald Trump – and what they mean about the first party of Corporate America.