President Donald Trump’s rise is not an anomaly – he is the product of forces set in motion 50 years ago, driven by massive deregulation and key Supreme Court decisions that dismantled a century of safeguards against corporate political spending,
Opinions and thoughts are the author’s own and not those of AFROTECH™. “Oligarchy” is the word that has been spread across the internet and used to describe what has been observed during Donald Trump’s inauguration.
Klee’s “Angelus Novus” is used by Benjamin, who at the time was fleeing from the gestapo, as a metaphor for the illusion behind the capitalist idea of progress. In the end, like this notion of progress, Trump’s pursuit of a “Golden Age” can only lead to disaster and ruin, to catastrophe for the U.S. and the rest of the world.
Donald Trump was sworn in Monday as the 47th president of the United States with some of the richest people on the planet standing close behind him on the inaugural platform—a symbol of what observers described as the nation's slide toward oligarchy.
Mr Trump is more transactional than presidents before him, which increases the risk of cronyism and self-dealing. But America’s economy, including its technology industry, is too unwieldy and dynamic to petrify into an actual oligarchy, whatever diplomats and departing presidents say. ■
Fmr. U.S. Labor Secretary Robert Reich joins MSNBC's Ali Velshi to explain exactly how he thinks Donald Trump is moving to create an American oligarchy, just what that means, and why Reich thinks that plan will fail in the end.
On Jan. 20, President Donald Trump was officially inaugurated and sworn into office ... the concern being that an oligarchy is forming within the U.S. Government. Biden warns in his farewell address that an oligarchy is forming in the U.S. On Jan. 15 ...
"Today, an oligarchy is taking shape in America of extreme wealth ... Biden's remarks came as President-elect Donald Trump has strengthened his ties with Big Tech executives such as Elon Musk, co-chair of his outside-government commission to recommend ...
For decades the powerful have produced discord, distrust and failures both at home and abroad.
Last Wednesday, during former President Joe Biden's farewell address, he warned that the U.S. could become an "oligarchy." Here's what it means
The problem with populism is that it doesn’t work.
“When I started talking about Oligarchy, many people didn’t understand ... defence industry and the US government. It is only Donald Trump’s first day back in office as US president, but ...