Democracy For Sale: Trump, Musk, And The Rise Of The New Oligarchy
BY DEBASHIS CHAKRABARTI In the twilight of American democracy, a battle is brewing—not just against Donald Trump’s executive overreach, but against the creeping oligarchy embodied by Trump and his billionaire enablers, chief among them Elon Musk. The question haunting progressives is not just whether Democrats can resist, but whether they have the will to fight. Trump’s latest executive orders—gutting federal education funding, rolling back environmental protections, and dismantling worker protections—are not aberrations but the natural culmination of a system increasingly designed to serve the ultra-rich. Musk’s shadow looms large, as he consolidates influence over critical infrastructure, social media, and even space exploration. Together, Trump and Musk are architects of a new, more insidious form of corporate authoritarianism, one where political power is wielded not only from the White House but from the boardrooms of tech monopolies. The Fragility of Trump’s Economic War Trump pr...
