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AndyTiedye

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2. The Financial Times is Not Afraid to Call them What they Are
Tue Sep 24, 2024, 04:23 PM
Sep 2024

Much of our press is running scared. The Financial Times is not:

𝖬𝖺𝗋𝗍𝗂𝗇 𝖶𝗈𝗅𝖿, 𝖥𝗂𝗇𝖺𝗇𝖼𝗂𝖺𝗅 𝖳𝗂𝗆𝖾𝗌

...The ques­tion arises: are the olig­archs who are try­ing to make Trump pres­id­ent and JD Vance vice-pres­id­ent, the lat­ter a man who has declared he would not have cer­ti­fied that elec­tion, about to learn what it means to have a tyr­ant as pres­id­ent? Yes, someone who attempts a coup against the elect­oral pro­cess — the very heart of demo­cracy — is a would-be tyr­ant. So is someone who may fill his gov­ern­ment with people per­son­ally loyal to him. Nobody then can truly be safe, except loy­al­ists and syco­phants....

The plu­to­crats who sup­port Trump may remain safer than Berezovsky. But can they really be as free as they want? Yes, a fur­ther erosion of demo­cracy might pro­tect them from inter­fer­ence by the elec­ted politi­cians they detest. But the men they put in power, in their stead, have a tend­ency to turn them­selves into abso­lute rulers. Nobody can then be truly safe.

https://ft.pressreader.com/article/281814289130125

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