Springtime for Plutocrats

plu·to·crat
ˈplo͞odəˌkrat/
nounderogatory
noun: plutocrat; plural noun: plutocrats

a person whose power derives from their wealth.
synonyms: rich person, magnate, millionaire, billionaire, multimillionaire; More

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Opinion | Op-Ed Columnist
Budgets, Bad Faith and ‘Balance’
Paul Krugman FEB. 15, 2018

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Looking at all of this should make you very angry; it certainly infuriates me. But my anger isn’t mostly directed at Republicans; it’s directed at their enablers, the professional centrists, both-sides pundits, and news organizations that spent years refusing to acknowledge that the modern G.O.P. is what it so clearly is.

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Why have Republicans become so overwhelmingly the party of bad faith? (And not just about budgets, of course; remember when Republicans cared deeply about a president’s sexual morality?) The main answer is probably that the party’s true agenda, dictated by the interests of a handful of super-wealthy donors, would be very unpopular if the public understood it. So the party must consistently lie about its priorities and intentions.

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