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Techno-Fascism Comes to America

Kyle Chayka The New Yorker
An unelected tech billionaire has so much power over the government. Tech titans fell in line behind Trump, MAGA-style populism is giving way to an optimization-oriented vision for the country’s future. Historic parallels help explain Musk’s rampage.

What Happened Here

John Ganz Unpopular Front
In the process of accumulating enormous wealth, the tech-oligarchs created the conditions for their loss of social power and, when they realized this, they got a big dose of class consciousness and turned furiously reactionary.

The MAGA Honeymoon Is Over

Ali Breland The Atlantic
Silicon Valley and the nativist right worked together to elect Trump. Now the infighting has begun.
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