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The broligarchs are trying to have their way
The antidemocratic politics of having it all
The Wall Street Journal recently reported that Tesla CEO Elon Musk, who according to his biographer once waited in line for six hours to shake Barack Obama’s hand, was planning to donate$45 million a month to a super PAC supporting Trump’s campaign. The LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman, a major Biden donor who signed the “VCsForKamala” statement, has urged the vice president to dump Lina Khan, the Biden-appointed Federal Trade Commission chair who has argued for more aggressive antitrust enforcement on tech companies. In the short term, broligarchs can adapt to local anarchy as the ultrarich of Brazil and Mexico have done, using helicopters to commute a few blocks to work or to ferry their children to school, high above the crime-ridden streets where their fellow citizens must struggle to survive as best they can.
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