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mericans may have learned to live with soaring levels of in- equality, but we have never really come to love our elites, and earlier this year, our relationship with the ruling class reached a new low. The Jeffrey Epstein saga, with its in- credible cast of billionaire sex pests, was embarrassing the global jet set almost daily. Jeff Bezos was decimat- ing the staff of the Washington Post, and Elon Musk, having concluded his reign of terror over the federal govern- ment, had just secured a $1 trillion pay package from Tesla. Meanwhile, Don- ald Trump, our billionaire president, was breaking all previous records for public disapproval. …
摘自《哈泼斯杂志》(Harper's Magazine)第352卷 第2112期 · 2026年5月刊,Thomas Frank。仅引用开头一小段供了解文章,版权归原刊所有,全文请阅读原刊。