Hartmann Report - What happens when a country stops pretending to care about democracy and just lets the billionaires run wild? Look no further than Putin’s Russia — a place where wealth buys protection, loyalty buys power, and corruption isn’t hidden, it’s institutionalized.
Now, under Donald Trump’s return to power, Elon Musk’s tightening grip on federal spending, and a GOP entirely beholden to dark money, America is no longer just flirting with that model — we’re fast becoming it.
This is the story of how the U.S. is being hollowed out from the inside, not by foreign enemies, but by our own billionaire oligarchs.
While Musk’s Doge team has tried to free up a trillion dollars in federal spending to pay for the upcoming GOP tax cuts for billionaires, his people have cancelled hundreds of billions of dollars in federal programs and contracts. At the same time, press reports indicate his SpaceX company just got another $5.9 billion cash injection made possible with your and my taxpayer dollars.
It’s an old story. Wealthy people help their “friends” acquire political power, which is then used to make those same wealthy people even richer…and along the way the politicians end up enriched themselves.
This form of governance is called a kleptocracy.
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