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Confidence Men writ large, as a moral stench in the nostrils of society

the fatuity and hypocrisy that lurked just beneath this romance of risk

even in Glenn Beck’s lachrymose sacrilege at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington

Even at that most elementary level, what’s being limned is a world of winners and losers

Oligarchs like Trump, the Koch brothers, the Walton family, Sheldon Adelson, Robert Mercer, and others don’t subscribe to the social and political meliorism typical of the faceless corporate CEOs of the mid-twentieth century