Monopolies and Fascism
BIG by Matt Stoller: Monopoly Round-Up: Monopolies and Fascism
That said, parts of Trump’s coalition seem to have drawn the lesson that centralized power isn’t so much a dangerous threat to liberty so much as a useful tool for changing a social order they don’t like. Here’s prominent right-wing activist Christopher Rufo, making that point."
"All of this context brings me to what’s happening right now. What we’ve seen over the past fifteen years, and what Trump has accelerated in his first 100 days, is a lesson - centralized economic power begets centralized political power - in action. It’s not a left-wing or right-wing lesson. Starting in 2018, the right began to fear big tech platforms. A few years later, their fears were validated, as they saw how Google, Facebook, Twitter, and Amazon de-platformed Trump and had the power to censor their views. Many conservatives began to rethink some of their prior libertarian assumptions, and that’s a reason that the antitrust cases against big tech are continuing under Trump.
That said, parts of Trump’s coalition seem to have drawn the lesson that centralized power isn’t so much a dangerous threat to liberty so much as a useful tool for changing a social order they don’t like. Here’s prominent right-wing activist Christopher Rufo, making that point."