The dominant role in his second presidential term are called “Boligarchs” – a combination of the words “BRO”, that is, “stuck”, and oligarchs, referring to the billionaires of Silicon Valey’s technological giants, such as, and.
On the role of Broligarchs in American politics, “To Step” he talked to her Brooke thanksProfessor of Sociology at Dartmouth University in the USA. Harrington has been studying for 17 years the phenomenon of Super Rich, billionaires, who are increasing their wealth through offshore companies, often moving to the limits of legality.
For her research, Harrington received relevant training to be able to work as wealth manager, as “Wealth Administrator” – these are the “intermediaries” who help their billionaires to bypass the legal system. “It was the only way to be able to research the issue. Billionaires do not talk to university professors or journalists, ”he says. Harrington is particularly concerned about the influence of Boligarchs on the US government.
“Trub plays golf in Florida and the country is ruled by the Broligarchs and Rights of the Right Think Tank Heritage Foundation who want to dismantle the federal state,” he said.
Did you first think of the term “broligarch”?
“No, I found him for the first time in 2016, in a Twitter account whose identity I don’t know.”
In the last many years the term oligarch has usually referred to the oligarchs of Russia. What is the difference between Boligarchs and Russian oligarchs?
“The Russian oligarchs realize that they should not be involved with politics, because this is the president’s main demand for them. They can get rich but not have a political point of view. Imprisoning for a decade to oligarch Michael Hodorkovsky, the former head of the oil Yukos, Putin gave a lesson to all Russian oligarchs.
When, after the Russian invasion of February 24, 2022, some oligarchs dared to criticize her on social media, a Salos was caused, which apparently cut because Putin reminded them of what happened to Hondorkovsky. On the contrary, Broligarchs are not only involved in politics but co -ordinate it with the Trump government. “
Brooke Harrington
After 2020, the Boligarchs left the Democrats and turned to the Republicans and Trump. Why?
“Because Trump cultivates their grandeur more than the ones. Note that the Boligarchs are today much richer than President Obama’s time. After the 2008 financial crisis, and although they lost money like everyone else, the Boligarchs, because they had more fluid, managed to get rich more than ever and at a faster pace. And they gained the feeling that they are the rulers of the universe and that they can buy politicians. The Democrats attempted to explain to them that they could get rich but not create monopolies. And they were reminded that in democracy no one is above the law. The Boligarchs were unhappy and turned to Trump, who does not set them any limit. “
Do you think the cooperation between people with a huge ego, such as Trump and Musk, will be maintained?
“All the Boligarchs, but mainly Musk, believe that they have bought the White House, the US government. Musk gave $ 250 million for Trump’s election, an amount that is nothing for him, and Trump knows he would not have been elected without Musk and without the help of the Russians and the Saudi. On November 14, a Putin adviser, in an interview, had said that Trump owes Russia and that Moscow hopes Trump will not forget his commitments. “
You emphasize that the Boligarchs are not interested in democracy but neither in their hysteria, such as wealthy American businessmen, Rockefellers, Carnegie, who left their imprint on American society.
“Because the Broligarchs have no sense of either the future or the hysteria. They are not interested in leaving something in society because they are not interested in society. They do not think they owe something to society. They think that if others are poor, the worse for them, it means they are not as smart as the Boligarchs to make a lot of money. See how Broligarchs face: Although they have all the information, they are only interested in how to save themselves and their families. How will they do this? By going to live somewhere else in New Zealand, in a bunker, by going to Mars. “
How can Boligarchs influence be stopped?
“By gradually recovering democratic US positions on public school councils, public libraries, positions that the American Right has occupied, from the Rigan era for the last forty years. This certainly cannot be done from day to day. The Democratic Party, however, may begin to exercise a daily militant opposition to Trump.
Fighter such as the opposition that Republicans practiced in every Democratic President of the United States. Republicans are still trying to cancel Obama’s health reform, which has been voted on for ten years. What could also be done is mass demonstrations, such as in the summer of 2020, after the assassination of Black George Flood by a white police officer in Minneapolis. But I doubt that the Americans will go down the streets.
Today’s government, Defense Minister Pitt Hegshez, will not hesitate to order security forces to open fires against protesters. Trump is surrounded by people like Hegschez. In 2020 there were still people in the then Trump government who raised their stature to the president. “
Sometimes broligarchs give the impression that they have no contact with reality. As if they are hypnotized or under the influence of drugs.
“But it’s! Ilon Mask boasted that he was taking ketamine, a very powerful opioid calming. Sergey Brin, one of the founders of Google, was taking psychedelic drugs, the Wall Street Journal had published a related article (27/6/2023). It is no coincidence that the perception of the Boligarchs about the world comes from science fiction and comics. It is an artificial world in which women are mainly reproductive organs. “
