IN TODAY'S politics, it pays to be a mediagenic plutocrat.
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That's sparked a backlash from anti-plutocrat gadflies like Anand Giridharadas.
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I ain't a socialist, I ain't a plutocrat, I'm a Democrat.
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Walking into the Oval Office will "sober" America's bigliest plutocrat, he insisted.
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It's against a Purell-addicted plutocrat who's been faking it all along.
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He is the archetype of the plutocrat she has criticized for years.
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The Gilded Age plutocrat is no longer free to exploit child labor.
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Will the Democrats try to replace Donald Trump with a power-hungry plutocrat?
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How will he manage the inevitable attacks calling him an out-of-touch plutocrat?
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He's also labeled himself a plutocrat, someone who has power because of their wealth.
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He rarely speaks to the press and his appearance is more professor than plutocrat.
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He doesn't appeal to his working-class followers despite being a plutocrat; he appeals to them because he's a plutocrat — a baronial figure who tells them that they're sharing a foxhole, beleaguered by the same disdainful elites, at war with the same villains.
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When a determined plutocrat is in the mood, it can be hard to stop him.
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" Hardwick is a "plutocrat who is only interested in maintaining his power and his fortune.
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America must make an honest appraisal: Donald Trump is a plutocrat masquerading as a populist.
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The influx of plutocrat money has done much more than produce a handful of hollow thinkers.
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But it was Warren who shone in her clear, authentic indignation at the New York plutocrat.
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Their determination to redistribute wealth from average Americans to their plutocrat donors is also having an impact.
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Anti-plutocrat fevers come and go, but the trappings of American aristocracy are always in style somewhere.
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But the national consensus built by them had been weakening long before a Manhattan plutocrat shattered it.
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Kraft loves being a presidential buddy but is also aware that many of his plutocrat friends don't approve.
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Mr. Obama and his campaign team portrayed Mr. Romney as a plutocrat who dismantled companies and outsourced jobs.
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He put's the 'pluto' in plutocrat, he hasn't got time for losers, unless they do what he demands.
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This has led to what we could call empathy songs and plutocrat songs: The empathy song looks at the plight of someone crushed under the economic wheel, sometimes speaking in his or her voice; the plutocrat song is typically more overtly political, targeting the damage done by the very rich.
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Specifically, there were white working-class voters who were discouraged by the perception that Romney was a wealthy plutocrat.
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They believed that Mr. Romney was a plutocrat who outsourced jobs and would favor the rich over ordinary Americans.
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Now, many in the plutocrat wing of the GOP seem to be genuinely dismayed by where this is going.
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He wields power because of his role as a plutocrat, even as he seeks to destroy that same power.
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Then again, if the argument is that a New York plutocrat can't win in a populist era — well, hello?
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The irony here is that the democratic socialist from Vermont is the mirror image of the Republican plutocrat from Manhattan.
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Plutocrat-bashing has become part of the debate in Britain, too, where an election will be held on December 12th.
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The White House has sent its budget recommendation to Congress, and it's a spending agenda only a plutocrat could love.
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He is trailed by a 38-year-old small city mayor, a little-known U.S. Senator and a New York plutocrat.
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Bernie Sanders's campaign against Donald Trump is that Donald Trump is a plutocrat and he's screwing you over all the time.
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President Trump and his fellow billionaire cabinet members reveal their plutocrat values in blazing color with this outrageous and indefensible proposal.
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But it uses music as character and catalyst, a vital force uniting artist and fan, hostage and guerrilla, plutocrat and revolutionary.
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Remember how Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, another plutocrat who has trouble hiding his contempt for flyover country, described it last year?
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That's a reason to think it won't work on any level past, perhaps, marginally raising awareness of an already impossibly famous plutocrat.
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The pee-peeved plutocrat took a gentler tack when asked on Thursday morning where Caitlyn Jenner should find relief in Trump Tower.
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Democrats need to cast him more like a plutocrat and a feckless president and less like a buffoon and a cartoon villain.
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Warren and Sanders have already essentially painted Bloomberg as exhibit A for why they're running: A plutocrat trying to buy American democracy.
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It begins as a whistle-blower drama about a young lawyer determined to expose and prosecute the crimes of Mr. Hopkins's evil plutocrat.
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The Obama campaign was able to depict Mitt Romney as an out-of-touch plutocrat who divided the world into makers and takers.
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Not only was he a successful mayor of America's largest city, but he's also a plutocrat—just like the president, except vastly richer.
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Caroline is being threatened by Sebastian Hobbs (Steven Berkoff), the glowering plutocrat who has just purchased the failing tabloid for which Porter writes.
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In 2012, Barack Obama successfully portrayed Mitt Romney as a plutocrat, an aloof vulture capitalist who has little concern for working-class Americans.
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Never a plutocrat, Smith nonetheless argued persuasively that certain arrangements of private wealth enhancement could at least permit the poor to live tolerably.
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He could more effectively paint Trump as a corrupt plutocrat who sold out the people he promised to help to aid rich cronies.
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As befits the perspective of a true modern plutocrat, when you're half-a-Chrysler Building above the Chrysler Building, helicopters fly below you.
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He is a plutocrat who inherited millions and has the cojones (in Brooklyn I gather they call it chutzpah) to masquerade as a populist.
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He seems less like a tough-talking populist than an in-over-his-head plutocrat ("nobody knew that health care could be so complicated").
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The best case for Mr. Trump is that white Northerners reluctantly backed Mr. Obama because Mr. Romney was successfully caricatured as a rapacious plutocrat.
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During his first hundred days in office, Trump has not done away with populist rhetoric, but he has acted almost entirely as a plutocrat.
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DeVos has a brand problem -- she is greeted by protesters almost everywhere she goes and is widely cast as an out-of-touch plutocrat.
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Though his foes brand him an out-of-touch plutocrat, he sees himself as a challenger to old-style business oligarchs from his home town.
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A plutocrat whose children have toggled back and forth between his government activities and his corporate interests, raising questions about the separation of the two.
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As the eighth richest man on the Forbes list of wealthy Americans, with a net worth of over $38 billion, he pretty much embodies the plutocrat.
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And he understands, as Berlusconi did, that extreme bluntness mitigates extraordinary affluence, giving a plutocrat a bridge to, and bond with, the common man or woman.
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During this period, they gave occasional interviews to the Dutch press, coming across as insolent, dashing antiheroes—working-class toughs who'd dared to kidnap a plutocrat.
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Biden's campaign kickoff, late last month, was a letter-perfect example of his old stock-in-trade: talking like a populist and walking like a plutocrat.
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Owen, the disdained younger son of a plutocrat family (they made their fortune in poop bots), is scraping by on temp jobs and haunted by hallucinations.
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But while Acosta's record covering up for a depraved plutocrat makes him a good fit for the Trump administration, it should disqualify him from public service.
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The liberal-minded voters at Steyer's events were unconcerned with his wealth and intrigued by the premise of a billionaire attacking Trump as an ineffective plutocrat.
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At a moment when his plutocrat peers seem increasingly hell-bent on mucking everything up, Benioff has carved out a different brand altogether: the good billionaire.
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In 2012, the Obama campaign attacked its Republican opponent, Mitt Romney, as a plutocrat who would outsource jobs and help the wealthy, not the middle class.
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This, suffice it to say, is not the group that an elitist New York City plutocrat beloved of Ivy Leaguers like Bloomberg is bound to win over.
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The 2012 presidential elections, a joyless slog, saw President Barack Obama traduce the Republican candidate, Mitt Romney as a heartless plutocrat and thus "not one of us".
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So Goddamn NervousThe Winkelvoss twins and a woman—who, as far as I know, is not meant to represent any particular technologist plutocrat—engage in a threesome.
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Mr Pritzker, the heir to the Hyatt hotel fortune, is campaigning to unseat Bruce Rauner, who is also a plutocrat and is the incumbent governor of Illinois.
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As it stands, then, Mr. Trump's $1 million gift to veterans not only came later than some expected, but it is also small for the plutocrat class.
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Instead of 250 teams participating in the race, only four sailing syndicates signed on to local plutocrat Larry Ellison's rules and requirements for space-age monster yachts.
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If you're looking to be a soulless plutocrat, you use the revenue to (even further) reduce corporate taxes, thus helping your wealthy buddies and screwing everyone else.
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If voters really hated ties to Wall Street and financial elites, Republicans would not enjoy such a commanding electoral position — or have elected a New York plutocrat president.
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Making good on his promise last episode to perform a service for Axe postelection, Chuck freezes the assets of the Russian plutocrat and staunch Axelrod adversary Grigor Andolov.
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But if you're a plutocrat bent on self-enrichment, there are more subtle, and more legal, ways to use the privileges of office to earn a lot more money.
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A plutocrat shouldn't get to buy his way to the head of the party that claims it represents the working class, no matter what he says to get there.
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The cardinal sin for sports plutocrat types like the FIFA Council is to be perceived as mixing politics and sports, no matter how much the two are actually intertwined.
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Even if there were a latent constituency of modern Rockefeller Republicans longing for the leadership of an enlightened plutocrat, third-party presidential campaigns are terrible vehicles for building political power.
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Greenberg suggests that Clinton erred by focusing too much on multiculturalism at the expense of class, and by trying to discredit Donald Trump as a vulgarian rather than a plutocrat.
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Greenberg suggests that Clinton erred by focusing too much on multiculturalism at the expense of class, and by trying to discredit Donald Trump as a vulgarian rather than a plutocrat.
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Jesus' community, run by a well-dressed former plutocrat Gregory (played by 24's Xander Berkeley), is full of helpless people who seem to spend all today feebly performing yard work.
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He could be entirely innocent of soliciting or welcoming Russian help and he'd still be a proudly offensive, gleefully divisive, woefully unprepared plutocrat with no moral compass beyond his own aggrandizement.
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His long con made Mr. DeMeyer's tale something of a parable of our age, a dark fantasy for millions of people who serve the plutocrat class and dream of getting even.
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Obama might have pulled the economy back from the brink, he might have fended off a comical plutocrat in Mitt Romney in 2012, he might have given millions more people healthcare.
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If it wasn't already clear that the intentions behind the plutocrat outreach campaign were not entirely civic-minded, the Tent City debacle did a good deal to clear it all up.
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This is about how the whims of a plutocrat can upend the lives of an entire city block, challenging the culture and the well-being of the people who live there.
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But it also may be that the unpopularity of a president who himself comes from the plutocrat class will finally focus musicians and their handlers on inequality and other pressing issues.
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"I see a new class of plutocrat who has more capital and more social capital than basically anybody has ever had in the history of the world," he told Recode's Kara Swisher.
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Until this year, you were hard-pressed to find a Democrat to say nice things about George W. Bush — see Worst President Ever — or Mitt Romney, often cast as a heartless plutocrat.
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Read more " _____ • David Remnick in The New Yorker: "During his first hundred days in office, Trump has not done away with populist rhetoric, but he has acted almost entirely as a plutocrat.
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Astonishingly, the main political beneficiary of all this energy was Donald Trump, a plutocrat with a long history of taking on too much debt, stiffing his business partners, and not paying taxes.
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Astonishingly, the main political beneficiary of all this energy was Donald Trump, a plutocrat with a long history of taking on too much debt, stiffing his business partners, and not paying taxes.
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Their humiliations at the hands of a brazen plutocrat, sardonically filmed with soaring camera work, are matched by their riotous efforts to work in the entertainment business—at a folkloric theme park.
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In going after Gawker, Thiel is not, as he presents himself, a philanthropist helping the little guy fight big media, but rather a plutocrat trying to quash voices he doesn't like to hear.
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We now know that Obama benefited in 2012 from the perception that Romney, a former private equity titan, was an out-of-touch plutocrat—Romney attacking working teachers would only harden that impression.
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She lost because she could never find a language, a thematic focus, or a campaigning persona that could convince enough struggling working Americans that she, and not a cartoonish plutocrat, was their champion.
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" Carlson's story, in fact, described Carville's "reptilian features," his "decidedly spotty" political track record, his "partisan and cant-filled" recent book, and his all-purpose avariciousness; the headline was " James Carville, Populist Plutocrat .
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Plutocrat-worthy timepieces have become such an inextricable part of tennis culture that Serena Williams rocked a rose-gold Royal Oak Offshore by Audemars Piguet for her recent debut on a Wheaties box.
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Tulsi Gabbard, and plutocrat Tom Steyer — here's how the support of the Democratic electorate would shake out:1/3 of voters would be happy with Bernie as the nominee, but would not support Buttigieg.
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The Senate confirmed President Donald Trump's education secretary on Tuesday, with Vice President Mike Pence casting the tie-breaking vote and putting a pro-privatization plutocrat in charge of the nation's public school system.
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Conversely, the plutocrat wing of the GOP, though shrinking, still wields enormous influence and its deep pockets buys a lot of weaponry and ammunition to bankroll a civil war against Trump and his acolytes.
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President Obama's reelection fight in 2012 came under difficult economic conditions, yet he and his campaign tarred Romney as a plutocrat with little understanding of, or sympathy for, the challenges faced by working people.
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Reuters is reporting that the details of a recently unsealed search warrant application show that Manafort, who worked as campaign manager for Donald Trump in 2016, was heavily in debt to a Putin-affiliated plutocrat.
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Like many seemingly intractable problems in American society, the problem of out-of-control drug prices is only "complex" and difficult to solve because the easy solutions are forestalled by our plutocrat-captured political system.
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Democrats' core strategy at the moment is to paint Trump as a closet plutocrat, and to focus on aspects of his agenda that point to tax cuts, financial deregulation, school privatization, and health care cutbacks.
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Soaking up praise—whether it's for the Arab Spring, doing the bare minimum to keep people safe, or merely being the richest guy in the room—has always been the true job of the tech plutocrat.
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It now appears that the outlier in recent cycles was the 2012 election, in which Democrats held on to power through the singular charisma of Obama himself and the fact that Republicans nominated a straight-up plutocrat.
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Add the writer's many attempts to breathe life into ancient culture wars about the Sixties and you get something close to a front-porch monologue issued by a slick, young plutocrat posing as a resentful old coot.
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Donald J. Trump and Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, candidates from very different places — one a plutocrat, the other the son of a Polish immigrant who went to a Brooklyn public school — captured primary victories in the state.
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Then there was his court-defeated ban on large sodas in NYC, which was intended to reduce obesity but would likely (and sort of already did) play nationally as the bizarre brainchild of an out-of-touch plutocrat.
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One of the reasons why Trump's attack on a judge of Mexican heritage resonated was because it was the act of a plutocrat who thought he should be above the law, the very thing he accuses Hillary of.
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But my feeling about it is, I'm confused by this, because I see a new class of plutocrat who has more capital and more social capital than basically anybody has ever had in the history of the world.
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Sacca, a guy who often reminds people that he likes to wear a cowboy shirt, went on to explain that he won't be returning to the hit TV show Plutocrat Interrogation Lottery (colloquially known as Shark Tank) either:Wait, really?
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It is altogether more likely that were he to win, the movement conservatives who still control Congress would present him the kind of plutocrat-friendly legislation that alienated their voters and drove them to Trump in the first place.
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Obama's campaign ran attack ads targeting the Ryan budget in 2012, and the budget helped him make his larger case that Romney was a plutocrat and vulture capitalist who would favor the rich at expense of the middle class.
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True, we failed to sniff out and stanch a presidential disaster in the making, and we're stuck for now with a morally bankrupt plutocrat so defensive and deluded that he's urging more nuance in the appraisal of neo-Nazis.
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The most resounding salvo from a stage was heard in June, when the Public Theater production of "Julius Caesar" in Central Park presented the title character as a portly plutocrat with a comb-over and a model-glamorous wife.
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It is time to mobilize against the plutocrat candidates, for other candidates to openly criticize and mock them, for more media scrutiny of how they obtained their fortunes, for people to go to their town halls and heckle them.
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It's a level of hypocrisy that suggest our government bend our laws for purpose depending on whether the accused is a rich white guy with plutocrat status or one particular young black rapper they just don't like the look of.
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For the underlying assumption behind the establishment strategy was that voters could be fooled again and again: persuaded to vote Republican out of rage against Those People, then ignored after the election while the party pursued its true, plutocrat-friendly priorities.
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"The fact this happened, that it was donated by the only plutocrat serving in the Australian Parliament, and that it was donated to save — some would say, buy — that plutocrat's continuation in office, is a very bad development," Dr. Wallace said.
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But the pitch was that in Trump you'd get a candidate who was a culture warrior instead of a plutocrat, and that earned him the votes of a significant slice of white working-class Midwesterners who'd voted twice for Barack Obama.
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Bloomberg, so awful when he made his debate debut last week, answered a question about public health and then a subsequent one about the legalization of marijuana in a nuanced, knowledgeable fashion, demonstrating that Trump's problem isn't that he's a plutocrat.
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Howard Schultz's potential independent White House bid is simply infuriating, and it's maddening to feel helplessly tangled in the gilded web of global intrigue emanating from the president, his plutocrat dictator pals and America's retail overlord, the philandering Jeff Bezos.
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That is, the story is that they want to serve the interests of the rich (which is true), and that the reason they want to slash aid to the poor is to free up money for plutocrat-friendly tax cuts.
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The idea that what voters truly desire is a dispassionate technocrat—who happens to be a billionaire plutocrat to boot—is totally at odds with the reality of this frenzied election season in particular and of politics in the Obama era in general.
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As The Washington Post's Dave Weigel and Jenna Johnson noted on Sunday, Barack Obama's 2012 campaign successfully painted Republican rival Mitt Romney as a predatory plutocrat, but similar attack ads against Trump haven't had as much traction, particularly among the white working class.
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Like the loan and the attack on Trump's taxes, this is part of Clinton's attempt to portray Trump as Mitt Romney 2.0 — copying Obama's strategy of portraying a Republican opponent as an out-of-touch plutocrat who doesn't care about working people.
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This creates an opportunity for the Democrats to do something in 2018 and 2020 that they conspicuously failed to do in 20183: portray Trump as a plutocrat whose goal is to help the rich at the expense of the poor and working class.
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While Plummer's portrayal of Getty as an imperious, penny-pinching plutocrat has a timely aspect in this age of income disparity, those very qualities border on caricature, as the movie's sympathies reside with Getty's daughter-in-law Gail, played by Michelle Williams.
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The scenario sounds eerily familiar: A plutocrat on a high floor in Trump Tower wields enormous political power, while a woman in his employ worries that he believes that his wealth and position entitle him to do anything he wants with her.
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He makes Patricia Hearst's father, Randy Hearst, sympathetic, describing how he transformed from "an overfed plutocrat whose cosseted existence could scarcely differ more" from the kidnappers into someone who listened closely to anyone who might help find his daughter, including inmates at nearby Vacaville prison.
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In doing her father's bidding, Ivanka Trump is trying to tell the world that a sexist really wants to empower women, that a racist really cares about equal opportunity and that a narcissistic plutocrat is acting in the high-minded interests of the little people.
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The chumminess suggests a deeper and more intractable moral rot in American academia: It shows that when a billionaire (or, in Epstein's case, a faux billionaire) comes calling, men in the ivory tower can't resist lowering their golden locks to let the plutocrat climb aboard.
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The chumminess suggests a deeper and more intractable moral rot in American academia: It shows that when a billionaire (or, in Epstein's case, a faux billionaire) comes calling, men in the ivory tower can't resist lowering their golden locks to let the plutocrat climb aboard.
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"An anonymous, unseen poet who lives above Mr. Astor and leaves him eloquent phone messages observes that studios and the hall below, though commissioned by a plutocrat, 'were built not on power, but on love,'" A. O. Scott of The Times wrote in a review.
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He's already booked on four Sunday cable shows, on which he's expected to hold up his appeal to African American voters and lean into a line he's betting will resonate with Democrats: that, in reference to Sanders and Mike Bloomberg, he is neither a socialist nor a plutocrat.
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The less magnanimous one is that Hughes is yet another plutocrat influencing politics, not unlike the Koch family or his ex-roommate Zuckerberg, who spent $100 million attempting to remake schools in Newark, New Jersey; or Tom Steyer and Michael Bloomberg in their attempts to buy the presidency.
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To choose Bloomberg as the alternative to Trump, then, is to bet that a chaotic, corrupt populist is a graver danger to what remains of the Republic than a grimly-competent plutocrat with a history of executive overreach and strong natural support in all our major power centers.
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President Barack Obama had held a steady and significant lead in the polls for the entirety of the election, and had intended to use the debate as a platform for defending his first term and warning the country about the consequences of electing an austerity-minded plutocrat in his place.
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While the party doesn't lack for proposals that would update its outdated, plutocrat-friendly agenda — see the books and proposals from Oren Cass, Henry Olsen and figures around the Niskanen Center, to name a few — changing this dynamic will not come easy, certainly not as easy as various Never Trumpers imagine.
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But the devil is in the details, and in this case the devil is Michael Bloomberg, a centrist plutocrat who, despite being one of America's most famous "independent" politicians, represents a stratospheric elite that straddles both parties and is the source of so much popular discontent on both the left and the right.
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While he is able to completely self-fund a presidential campaign, giving him an advantage over Patrick (who is regular-rich, not plutocrat-rich), the former New York City mayor is skipping Iowa and New Hampshire and purchasing generically anti-Trump Facebook ads instead of Facebook ads promoting a Michael Bloomberg candidacy.
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Jew hatred has re-entered the European mainstream through a toxic amalgam of spillover from vilification of Israel, the return of the Jewish plutocrat as hated symbol of the 1 percent, and the resurgence of the Jewish "cosmopolitan" as the target of ascendant nationalists convinced a cabal of Jews runs the world.
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Many months before Romney secured the Republican presidential primary, Obama laid the groundwork to run against a heartless plutocrat, proposing a tax reform he called the "Buffett Rule," which would ensure that high-income earners and people with large investment incomes (people, in other words, like Mitt Romney) wouldn't pay lower effective tax rates than their employees.
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One former employee, the one who wrote the most controversial post about the Silicon Valley plutocrat, writes about the so-called "outing" of Peter Thiel and points out it is not what most people claim: And then there's the much-cited 2007 post I wrote about the puzzling reaction of Silicon Valley's elite to any discussion of Peter Thiel's sexuality.
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Several of the novels are especially engaging: " The Plutocrat ," in which a crass but enthusiastic Midwestern millionaire sweeps through the Mediterranean world like a benign Roman conqueror, and " Kate Fennigate ," the life of a superbly confident woman who overreaches in helping her husband fulfill his potential; but even these two novels are an unmistakable retreat from what he had achieved at his best.
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Grilling Mnuchin on the offshore hedge fund could pay big dividends if he slips up or if something is discovered later, but the questions at the start of the hearing have been very specific and don't do as much as they could to build the narrative that they're clearly grasping for: that Mnuchin is an out-of-touch plutocrat who doesn't pay his fair share.
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But underneath the bravado at rallies and on Twitter, President TrumpDonald John TrumpFacebook releases audit on conservative bias claims Harry Reid: 'Decriminalizing border crossings is not something that should be at the top of the list' Recessions happen when presidents overlook key problems MORE governs far more like a plutocrat than a populist and there's little reason to believe Trump is any more serious about retirement policy than other domestic policy issue.
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For every plutocrat who diligently elevates a team to a global brand (Abramovich at Chelsea), there's a chicken consortium that sends a venerable club down to the Championship (Venky's at Blackburn), a human-rights-violating head of state (Thailand's Thaksin Shinawatra year of owning Manchester City), and duplicitous American financiers content to load a club with debt (Malcolm Glazer at Manchester United) or to treat it like a dull, lucrative, asset (Stan Kroenke at Arsenal).
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