President Donald Trump is a prototype for an American plutocratic form of authoritarianism, but the new MAGA order is much bigger than one man or leader. It has allowed an estimated 42 million Americans to delay their Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits and a painful government shutdown to drag into its fifth week, becoming the longest in American history.

But as the election results in New York City’s mayoral race became decisively clear on Tuesday night, the country was given a template for casting off Trumpism — and what the Washington Post recently referred to as “aristopopulism.”

America’s democracy is functionally a plutocracy — and, in the Age of Trump, a naked kleptocracy — where elected officials and other elites are increasingly distant from average Amer

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