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Americans crushed this same Trump con Republicans pushed 100 years ago
Robber-Baron Politics with a Better Marketing BudgetThe Mansion Is the MessageThe Biltmore Estate is used here as evidence, not nostalgia: 175,000 square feet of inherited wealth built by 1,000 laborers in six years, adorned with imported luxury while the people who built it lived in squalor. That contrast is the point. The source is arguing that Trump-era politics, backed by corporate wealth, is not an anomaly but a return to the same governing logic that made this kind of spectacle possible.Power Wears the CrownThe people with actual power in this story are not the voters being flattered by…
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