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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
Noun
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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
Noun
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If there were a Mensa society for rationalizing one’s own shitty behavior, Pippa would be its president.—
Kathleen Walsh,
Vulture,
17 Feb. 2026
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And your personal history with someone who abused alcohol and struggled with society makes your son-in-law’s behavior especially triggering.—
R. Eric Thomas,
Denver Post,
17 Feb. 2026
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But the Westeros aristocracy likely won’t see Baelor as disposable.—
Noel Murray,
Vulture,
16 Feb. 2026
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Once the preserve of European aristocracy, the Romanée-Conti is now sought out by multi-millionaires at auction.—
Pin Yen Tan 9 min ago,
CNN Money,
6 Feb. 2026
Noun
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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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Hall works as the other half, but too much of her character is based around the underwhelming irony that even beautiful people can have insecurities.—
Daniel Fienberg,
HollywoodReporter,
21 Jan. 2026
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Hopefully this means some more beautiful people might find something in my album.—
Thomas Smith,
Billboard,
19 Jan. 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 19 Feb. 2026.
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