There’s a Reason Trump Has Friends in High Places

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As Anthony Scaramucci, onetime communication director for the former president, told Politico in a striking critique of Trump’s billionaire supporters: “You need a democracy to have effective capitalism. If you don’t, you get cronyism. You get oligarchy. You get crony capitalism. You get arbitrary and capricious administration to the law, which reduces people’s tendency to invest in your country.”

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Opinion | There’s a Reason Trump Has Friends in High Places

Even the weak regulatory grasp of capitalist democracy is too strong for, well, capitalists.
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"There was, in the view of Franklin Roosevelt, “an impulse among a good many ‘strong’ men, men used to having their way, mostly industrialists who directed affairs without being questioned, a feeling that democracy had run its course and that the totalitarians had grasped the necessities of the time.”
 
"According to Sam Sutton, writing in Politico, several Wall Street executives and Silicon Valley venture capitalists who backed Donald Trump and then spurned him after the Jan. 6 insurrection have now returned to the fold, with open arms and open wallets. They are, he writes, “looking past qualms about his personality and willingness to bulldoze institutional norms and focusing instead on issues closer to the heart: how he might ease regulations, cut their taxes or flex U.S. power on the global stage.”
 
Hawkeye10 said:
Trump is almost universally hated by the people in high places.

Anti-Truth.
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Because he is a Rino. He had seldom voted in Republican primaries, he supported Democratic candidates financially (Hillary), and had liberal views on many issues.
 
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