Business leaders affiliated with AI companies and TikTok and family members of people accused of federal crimes were among those who made big donations to MAGA Inc.
Those contributions came at a time when Trump’s super PAC wasn’t spending on elections, of course, but as Trump was governing or preparing to govern in the year-plus after he won.
And while Trump maintains a large and loyal base of longtime supporters and donors, some of the brand-new financial backers have specific business interests in front of the federal government, important contracts with federal agencies or companies in sectors that could face dramatic shifts due to federal policies.
Others had relatives facing years in federal prison.
I really dislike this insinuated detachment of capitalism from the right.
Capitalism is inherently a right-wing ideology, placing control of the means of production into the hands of individuals and corporations, for the benefit of the individual/corporation. Individualism and corporatism in turn are core tenets of (alt)right politics.
Now it’s one thing that the US Overton window shifted so much to the right that what were once borderline radical right-wing policies, are considered today to be “commie libtard ideology”… But that doesn’t change the fact that capitalism is inherently right-wing. So of course fascists would heavily rely on it. After all it gives them both control and plausible deniability of said control.