American billionaires have long placed their thumbs on the scale of democracy -- but never like this.

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

67% : Musk was the guy who turned one of the world's biggest social-media platforms into a black hole of anti-immigrant agitprop.
60% : Trump said so explicitly at a fundraiser early in the campaign, promising fossil-fuel executives a host of goodies -- including eliminating the electric vehicle mandate -- if they ponied up $1 billion to support his bid.
59% : He's on the ticket now, in part, because Thiel, like Musk, urged Trump personally to pick him.
52% : It was Musk who lobbied Trump to put JD Vance on the ticket.
47% : Vance got to the Senate because Thiel personally introduced him to Trump at Mar-a-Lago and spent $15 million to get him elected.
41% : I've mostly focused on Trump and his allies, and not Democrats, because this election in particular was asymmetrical.
27% : He has made peace with Trump, who has said Zuckerberg should face "life in prison" for taking down Covid misinformation during the pandemic.
25% : Sen. Tim Scott's primary challenge to Trump was supposed to be bankrolled by Larry Ellison, but the money never materialized.
20% : And he had hosted a glitchy and uncomfortable conversation with Trump on X.
16% : After Trump was shot, Zuckerberg called the former president a "badass."

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