Trillionaire Cometh, Democracy Goeth

Photo: President Donald Trump participates in a press conference with departing DOGE adviser Elon Musk, Friday, May 30, 2025, in the Oval Office. Photo credit: Official White House photo by Molly Riley via Flickr. US government work. Article by Bob Lord. Inequality.org – December 26, 2025.

With the arrival of our first trillionaire fast approaching, America’s democracy is hanging by a thread.

I wrote my first post for Inequality.org, Our First Trillionaire: Only a Matter of Time, over twelve years ago. I hoped, at the time, that the post would age poorly. After all, the presence of a trillionaire on American soil would certify that we had unquestionably reached an oligarchic concentration of our nation’s wealth. […]

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