Cryptocurrency = Not being used as a currency, doesn’t even meet the criteria for a true medium of exchange.
AI = Can’t actually be used to automate these federal worker’s jobs, it’s snake oil.
Most importantly, JD Vance, Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, although quite powerful and influential right now, are NOTHING without Trump. And as michael Bloomberg showed us, money alone doesn’t win elections.
Seriously this is a very well written article and the concerns are real, especially around the degradation of our institutions over the past 50+ years. But if you put JD Vance, Elon, or Peter thiel in front of your average American, the response will be a more derogatory form of “neurodivergent freak”.
In 1-2 years I’m predicting democrats take back the senate and house, 4 years we get a younger more normal democratic president. Hopefully most of the old neo lib democrats die off and we get more smart charged up dems like AOC, Buttigieg, and the fella from Georgia who will actually tell these rich bastards to stuff it.