Better for the billionaires: Rachel Maddow shows how Donald Trump is ushering in a new era of oligarchy

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4.5 • 34K Ratings

🗓️ 17 December 2024

⏱️ 44 minutes

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What does the United States look like when the presidency is purchased by billionaires? How do they reap the benefits of their investment and how does it end up hurting everyone else? And perhaps more importantly, as we see the new Trump era oligarchy taking shape, what can Americans do to slow that slide? Rachel Maddow talks with Timothy Snyder and the ACLU's Anthony Romero.

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1:32.1	Thanks for at home for joining us this hour.
1:33.7	Really happy to have you here.
1:35.5	So speaking on the holidays, two years ago on Thanksgiving Day, so Thanksgiving Day
1:41.4	2022, the leader of one of the world's highest profile
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1:54.5	company's cars that as of that day, they no longer had to drive their cars. Starting that day, Thanksgiving Day,
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