President Trump’s plan to slash the federal government and hand massive tax cuts to the ultra-rich isn’t really about making government serve you better.

Here’s the plot twist nobody’s talking about:

President Trump’s plan to slash the federal government and hand massive tax cuts to the ultra-rich isn’t really about making government serve you better.

It’s a 30-year strategy to bankrupt the federal government.

Meet the “patriotic millionaires,” a group of wealthy insiders who say inequality has reached a breaking point—and they see Trump as the perfect messenger for this decades-long plan.

Why?

Because no politician gets elected by saying, “I’m gonna cut services.”

So the trick is:

Cut taxes as much as possible,

pump up military spending,

bankrupt the government,

…and then turn around and say,

“Sorry folks, we have no money left, so we gotta slash healthcare, childcare, and all the social programs your grandparents fought for.”

This strategy isn’t new.

Back in the Reagan era, government spending was likened to a spoiled child. Then came Grover Norquist’s infamous goal to shrink government "to the size where we can drown it in the bathtub."

But drowning government means killing off popular safety net programs — the ones both red and blue states depend on.

That’s where Trump stepped in:

He branded the very federal workers running these programs as “the Deep State” and “crooked.”

He blew up spending on “gender confused mice” — trivial things — while ignoring the massive spending that actually helps people.

That branding was a masterstroke.

It gave a decades-old right-wing project a fresh face — amplified by far-right media — and finally made dismantling government politically possible.

The truth?

Sure, government has inefficiencies that need fixing.

But this isn’t about reform.

It’s about breaking it down — especially the programs funded by your tax dollars.

And as these programs get dismantled, the same elite groups keep pushing policies that benefit them and refuse to support raising wages, healthcare, or public schools — the things working families desperately need.

Here’s the real kicker:

The people who lived through the Great Depression — who actually saw what happens without a safety net — are mostly gone.

And now, many communities that stand to lose the most from these cuts voted heavily for Trump.

They supported a campaign that’s tearing apart the very protections their grandparents and great-grandparents fought tooth and nail to build.

Welcome to the unraveling of the American social contract.