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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.
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Daniel Waldenstrom,
Foreign Affairs,
19 May 2025
American democracy has been hijacked by a one-man plutocracy.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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These kinetic battles are creating the kind of real-life human interactions that aren’t so common in a modern society that revolves around smartphones.
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By contrast, generations of pubs have catered to a broad swath of society, so many Melburnians enjoy eating out affordably as a matter of course.
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Then, as things started to change politically in England, there was the beginning of that feeling of an uprising by the serfs against the aristocracy and the landowners, and this cultural hero rocking the boat and stealing from the rich to give to the poor started to be birthed.
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The Order used to be limited to the aristocracy, but members are now selected from a variety of backgrounds in celebration of their public service, with both men and women welcomed.
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Potentates and glitterati convened in Woodlawn this week to celebrate the opening of the Obama Presidential Center.
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Both the actor and the automaker’s models presented a powerful and dashing visage that defined the glamor of the age, and Hollywood’s glitterati were enamored with each.
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The characters are thin and the plot often ludicrous, but the sight of beautiful people making bad decisions is soothing enough to override one’s critical faculties.
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His recruiting focused on the beautiful people of the 1980s, so the screen fills with jet-setting supermodels and nights at Studio 54.
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More than an idyllic lakeside hamlet beloved by the international jet set, the northern Italian town of Como and the surrounding area are home to the country’s biggest silk-making districts, part of Italy’s fashion supply chain backbone.
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The business jet set flew from Montreal, Canada, to Nice, France, in just over six hours.
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“Plutocracy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/plutocracy. Accessed 29 Jun. 2026.
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