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Topic: ARISTOCRACY

Florida Republican Governor Ron DeSantis addresses attendees on day one of the 2022 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Orlando. (Paul Hennessy/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Why the right is so terrified of "woke"

Kirk Swearingen
Miniature people standing on a pile of coins (Getty Images)

Why American wealth lasts generations

Patricia Callahan, James Bandler, Justin Elliott, Doris Burke, Jeff Ernsthausen - ProPublica
In this Thursday, Jan. 15, 2015 file photo people stand in front of the 'Venus' by Italian painter Sandro Botticelli during a news conference about the planned exhibition 'The Botticelli Renaissance' in Berlin. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

America's aristocratic future

David Cay Johnston
This undated frame grab from a television ad provided by the Illinois Freedom PAC shows a political ad criticizing venture capitalist Bruce Rauner, a candidate for the Republican nomination for Illinois governor. Labor unions, which funded the ad, have taken an unprecedented role in the March 18 Republican primary. (AP Photo/Courtesy of the Illinois Freedom PAC) (AP)

The plutocratic candidate slate

Les Leopold - Alternet
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Warriors of the aristocracy

Heather Digby Parton
Paul Krugman (Reuters/Anton Golubev)

Krugman: Tax the rich—now!

Elias Isquith
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