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Recent Examples of plutocracy
These days, nothing infuriates liberals more than to be lectured about the American plutocracy — not when Trump is perhaps the most brazenly corrupt president to hold the office in modern history.
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Alexander Heffner, Chicago Tribune, 29 May 2025
The turn toward market liberalization around 1980 unleashed a second wave of plutocracy.
—Daniel Waldenstrom, Foreign Affairs, 19 May 2025
American democracy has been hijacked by a one-man plutocracy.
—Ben Travers, IndieWire, 10 Feb. 2025
The problem with plutocracy is that billionaires are typically removed from the struggles of working- and middle-class citizens, ordinary folks who share neither the goals nor system of values of the ultrawealthy.
—Mordechai Gordon, Hartford Courant, 25 Dec. 2024
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Alexander Heffner, Chicago Tribune, 29 May 2025
The turn toward market liberalization around 1980 unleashed a second wave of plutocracy.
—Daniel Waldenstrom, Foreign Affairs, 19 May 2025
American democracy has been hijacked by a one-man plutocracy.
—Ben Travers, IndieWire, 10 Feb. 2025
The problem with plutocracy is that billionaires are typically removed from the struggles of working- and middle-class citizens, ordinary folks who share neither the goals nor system of values of the ultrawealthy.
—Mordechai Gordon, Hartford Courant, 25 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for plutocracy
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Both industrialized what had previously been cottage industries—in Ford’s case, the artisanal carriage trade; in Seabrook’s, market gardening.—
John Seabrook
June 11,
Literary Hub,
11 June 2025
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Once the sale of the North Avenue Market complex was official a few weeks ago, a new arts partnership began envisioning a future for this 1928 landmark where Baltimore’s carriage trade once did their food shopping.—
Jacques Kelly,
Baltimore Sun,
23 Mar. 2024
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For a society that still carries those memories, the psychological impact is profound.—
Pegah Banihashemi,
Chicago Tribune,
3 Mar. 2026
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Social isolation and loneliness are widespread and can have serious impacts on health, well-being and society, according to a 2025 report from the World Health Organization.—
Laura Berrios,
AJC.com,
3 Mar. 2026
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According to Deirdre Clemente, a fashion and culture historian, the emergence of the suit as the standard for men in the 18th and 19th centuries was itself a rebellion against the ornate, flashy and colorful clothing associated with aristocracy.—
Rustin Dodd,
New York Times,
28 Feb. 2026
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Film clips play silently in windows throughout the room, and even without words guests can sense the tension between old aristocracy and the rising influence of the merchant class.—
Jane Wooldridge,
Miami Herald,
19 Feb. 2026
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Jagger’s bandmates, rock ‘n’ roll comrades, and other A-listers attended their vows—Keith Richards, Paul McCartney, Eric Clapton, and Brigitte Bardot were just a few of the glitterati in the pews.—
Bailey Bujnosek,
InStyle,
17 Jan. 2026
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The edifice may at first appear to have realized the modernist dream of injecting avant-garde art into everyday life, but its architects’ intention that the building serve only the glitterati of its day evacuated this modernist aesthetic of the socialist ideals typically underpinning it.—
Michaëla de Lacaze Mohrmann,
Artforum,
1 Jan. 2026
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Ann and Nance were raised by these two beautiful people, John and Lou Wilson.—
Andy Greene,
Rolling Stone,
4 Mar. 2026
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If Tell Me Lies scratched your itch for watching wealthy, beautiful people make spectacularly terrible decisions that ripple through their entire social circle, Gossip Girl basically invented that formula.—
Hanna Wickes,
Miami Herald,
20 Feb. 2026
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And El Camineto attracts the international jet set, with many loyal, repeat guests.—
Elycia Rubin,
HollywoodReporter,
11 Feb. 2026
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Valentino Garavani, the legendary fashion designer whose namesake label dressed the global jet set, died Monday aged 93.—
J.D. Capelouto,
semafor.com,
19 Jan. 2026
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“Plutocracy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/plutocracy. Accessed 11 Mar. 2026.
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