"In the 1890s the rise of industry led to the concentration of wealth at the top of the economy, and once again, wealthy leaders began to abandon equality for the idea that some people were better than others...
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"As industrialists gathered the power of the government into their own hands, people of all political parties once again came together to reclaim American democracy...
"Roosevelt ushered in the Progressive Era with government regulation of business to protect the ability of individuals to participate in American society as equals. The rise of a global economy in the twentieth century repeated this pattern...
"After socialists took control of Russia in 1917, American men of property insisted that any restrictions on their control of resources or the government were a form of 'Bolshevism'. But a worldwide depression brought voters of all parties behind President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s 'New Deal'...
"That is the world that Elon Musk and Donald Trump are dismantling. They are destroying the government that works for all Americans in favor of using the government to concentrate their own wealth and power."
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