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Trump’s America isn’t an oligarchy: it’s much worse than that

Trump’s America isn’t an oligarchy: it’s much worse than that

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Nick Cohen
Dec 06, 2024
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When faced with the shock of the new, men and women reach for the familiarity of the old. The alliance between Donald Trump and Elon Musk, which is to say between the most powerful man in the world as of next January and the richest man in the world as of today, has liberals reaching for the most damning label they can find – “oligarchy”.

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