and their wealth is the US legal system? If Trump tears it down, as he seems to be trying to do, what's to stop him from simply confiscating the wealth of the billionaires on some "national emergency" pretext and then turning it over to himself or his businesses? In the Youngstown v. Sawyer case in 1952, where Truman tried to nationalize the steel mills to prevent a strike during the Korean War, SCOTUS said a president couldn't do that, but that was then, and a different SCOTUS. It's what Putin has done in Russia - he allows the oligarchs to remain wealthy, but only as long as they toe the line and stay away from windows. Business people and corporations collaborated and complied with Hitler and many became wealthy, but we know how that whole mess ended, and some of those corporate leaders ended up defendants at Nuremberg. Without the legal system Trump could decide that he, not Musk, should be the richest man in the world and take whatever steps he needed to make that happen. So maybe all these rich assholes should try a little harder to push back on Trump as he tries to destroy the courts.
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