A Global Free Market Economy

The ultra wealthy have long since abandoned caring anything about the United States. They've moved on to creating a global third-world free-market system for themselves.

They still use patriotism and nationalism to win elections to this end however, causing enough distraction and using enough dis-information (via Fox "News," e.g.) that Republican voters won't notice the wealthy's main corporate sources are now trans-national, generate more and more jobs overseas, in China, etc.