An excess of billionaires is destabilising politics - just as academics predicted

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

55% : Another billionaire donor, John Paulson, has been floated for the treasury secretary job, and Trump has a track record of rewarding big-ticket donors with a seat at the table - the billionaire Stephen Schwarzman boasted in print about his role in the new North America Free Trade Agreement negotiations in 2018, and as part of Trump's "strategic and policy forum" during the 2017 administration.
51% : He fleshed out what small government meant, in a telephone town hall (like a radio phone in, except the radio phones you, the constituents) over the weekend: ordinary Americans would face "temporary hardship" as welfare programmes are slashed in order to restructure the economy, but they should embrace the pain, as "it will ensure long-term prosperity".
43% : But as the cost-cutting tsar, a made-up role Trump has promised him, he would exert extraordinary power to cause pain, with the only choice left to citizens being whether or not to hug it.

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