Victor Davis Hanson: The REAL Oligarchs Who've Been Running Our Country💵

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🗓️ 27 March 2025

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Victor Davis Hanson breaks down the irony of the Left’s sudden outrage over wealthy elites influencing politics on today’s episode of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words” “ The Democrats raised $1 billion more than did Trump. So, what is going on? There is an anger now that for the first time in 20 years, over three administrations—Clinton, Obama, and Biden—for the first time there are multibillionaires who are starting to question their Democratic loyalty: larry Ellison, Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, perhaps even Jeff Bezos. “ The Democratic Party is the party of the very wealthy, plutocracy, and the billionaire class, but they demand absolute loyalty and solidarity. And any defections or apostates then cause them to go—I don’t know what the word is—ballistic that anybody would doubt their ability to control the big money in the United States.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:28.2	Have you heard this word lately that's been bandied about oligarchs, autocrats, dictators,
0:34.1	dictators, in other words, that supposedly a small cabal of very wealthy people have
0:40.5	snatched control of the government. And the Democrats, as the loyal opposition of the fighting
0:46.2	middle class, is trying to stop it. But they're using all of these terms to castigate the
0:51.4	relationship between Elon Musk and Donald Trump. But here's what's ironic.
0:55.0	We didn't hear any of this during the Obama years,
0:59.0	during the Clinton years, or during the Biden years.
1:02.0	In other words, for 20 years, no one may mention that the country was controlled by oligarchs.
1:09.0	The was controlled by oligarchs.
1:23.8	Hello, this is Victor Davis-Hanson for the Daily Signal.
1:29.0	Have you heard this word lately that's been bandied about oligarchs, autocrats,
1:39.1	dictators, but mostly aristocrats, in other words, that supposedly a small cabal of very wealthy people have snatched control of the government. And the Democrats, as the loyal opposition of the
1:46.6	fighting middle class, is trying to stop it, they use the word plutocrats. Alligarchs just from
1:52.4	the Greek word, the rule by the few. Plutocrat means the rule by the wealthy, aristocrat means rule by the so-called best or those people who
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