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how CEOs are funding America's dangerous shift to fascism.

The article opens with an epigraph, you know, a quote from Donald Trump from December 10th of this month.

Any person or company investing $1 billion or more in the United States of America will receive fully expedited approvals and permits,

including but in no way limited to all environmental approvals. And the article begins. The 1986 American Heritage Dictionary defines fascism as, quote,

a system of government that exercises a dictatorship of the extreme right, typically through the

merging of state and business leadership

together with belligerent nationalism."

We're about to be there.

The power of government to both reward and punish is awesome.

No other entity can legally take money away from citizens at gunpoint and hand it to others

as favors.

No other entity has the power to deprive people of their freedom and even their lives. No other entity can use both of those

powers to regulate how business must be conducted. When Disney, a $248 billion company, decided to give a

$15 million donation to Donald Trump's presidential

library slush fund. They didn't do so because they were worried about losing a defamation lawsuit.

To the contrary, they would have easily won the case. The judge in Trump's New York trial came

right out and said in front of God in the whole world, quote, the finding Ms. Carroll failed to prove that she was raped within the meaning of the

New York penal law does not mean she failed to prove Mr. Trump raped her, as many people

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