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Do Oligarchs Run America? | Sohrab Ahmari vs. Robby Soave
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Are oligarchs running America? In this episode of "Fault Lines," Sohrab Ahmari and Robby Soave debate whether concentrated wealth and corporate power have undermined American democracy. Ahmari argues that America increasingly suffers from electoral, market, and informational oligarchy, with wealthy donors, powerful corporations, and technology platforms exercising influence that ordinary citizens cannot match. Soave challenges that diagnosis, arguing that many of America's supposed oligarchs ...