Why is a group of billionaires working to re-elect Trump? | Robert Reich

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

85% : Trump "grew the economy quite well.
64% : In addition to Trump, Musk has used his platform in support of India's Narendra Modi, Argentina's Javier Milei and Brazil's Jair Bolsonaro.
52% : "If "capitalist democracy" is becoming an oxymoron, it's not because of public assistance or because women got the right to vote.
49% : Just 50 families have already injected more than $600m into the 2024 election cycle, according to a new report from Americans for Tax Fairness.
46% : Musk, Thiel, Schwarzman, Murdoch and their fellow billionaires in the anti-democracy movement don't want to conserve much of anything - at least not anything that occurred after the 1920s, including Social Security, civil rights, and even women's right to vote.
42% : Thiel also donated at least $10m to the Arizona Republican primary race of Blake Masters, who also claimed Trump won the 2020 election and admires Lee Kuan Yew, the authoritarian founder of modern Singapore.
42% : If we want to guard what's left of our freedom, we must meet the anti-democracy movement with a bold pro-democracy movement that protects the institutions of self-government from oligarchs like Musk and Thiel and neo-fascists like Trump.
29% : Even before the pandemic, job growth under Trump was slower than it's been under Biden.
29% : But don't assume that the increasing flow of billionaire money to Trump and his Republican party is motivated solely by tax cuts and regulatory rollbacks.
26% : "Trump recently solicited a group of top oil executives to raise $1bn for his campaign, reportedly promising that if elected he would immediately reverse dozens of environmental rules and green energy policies adopted by Biden.
24% : It's because billionaire capitalists like Musk and Thiel are intent on killing democracy by supporting Trump and the neo-fascists surrounding him.
23% : Under Trump the economy lost 2.9m jobs.
21% : The Times analysis showed that over the same period of time, Musk has posted more than 20 times in favor of Trump, claiming that the criminal cases the former president now faces are the result of media and prosecutorial bias.
19% : Its purpose: to defeat Joe Biden and re-install Donald Trump in the White House.
18% : Now he's backing Trump because, Schwarzman says, "our economic, immigration and foreign policies are taking the country in the wrong direction.
14% : Trump said this would be a "deal" for the oil executives that would avoid taxation and regulation on their industry.

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