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Try Reagan and "trickle down" economics.
Bankrupt the people so they are beholden to the rich and have to take what is left over. The rich buy the government, which implodes due to the infighting and corruption, then call for a GEOTUS to get them out of the mess.
Irreparable harm to the United States has been the goal of the GOP since the election of Donald Trump. >

Long before that.