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This is Forum. I'm Rachel Myro in for Mina Kim.

Supreme Court Justice Lewis Brandeis famously said, we can have a democratic society,

or we can have the concentration of great wealth in the hands of a few. We cannot have both.

This warning is a clarion call to action for Gil Duran, the former political strategist behind

the newsletter and forthcoming book

Nerd Reich, Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Democracy. In recent years, he's tracked

how a small pack of Silicon Valley moguls with staggering resources have increasingly started to

sing in harmony around the idea of replacing democracy

with something else that suits their taste for white supremacy and subjugation of anyone who

doesn't fall in line. Gil Duran joins us in studio now. Gil, thank you for being here.

Thanks for having me. I want to say welcome back,

and thank you again for naming what I think a growing number of journalists, late-night

comedians and others have been documenting in bits and pieces, this kind of interlocking

set of bunker worldviews calling for a post-liberal America.

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