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The Unique Danger of a Trumpist Oligarchy

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Frida Ghitis: Donald Trump is entering into a partnership with the most powerful technologists in the world.

She says the state is a lucrative profit center for private business; not since the Gilded Age has it been so vulnerable to corrupt manipulation.

Ghitis says the arrangement has the potential to deliver a double blow to the American system.

Frida Ghitis: Big Tech billionaires attracted to Trump would hope to protect their monopolies by providing essential services that make them indispensable to the government and the nation.

She says they want to exploit their relationship with the government in order to supplant it.

Ghitis says it's hard to imagine transplanting Russian oligarchy to U.S. given the rule of law and the higher standards of American capitalism.