Why Megadonors Are Unfazed by Donald Trump’s Guilty Verdict
www.nytimes.com
Money flowed into the former president’s re-election campaign from Wall Street and Silicon Valley following Thursday’s historic conviction.

With the billionaires backing him, it’s going to be on us as individual Americans to make sure Trump doesn’t end up in the White House again. That means not just voting but talking with people around you, volunteering and donating

  • skyspydude1@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    Culturally, we also sadly don’t seem to have many other measures of success aside from wealth, and a poor social support structure that requires people to seek out their own forms of support. Add in the pervasiveness of the “prosperity gospel”, where the more good you are, the more money you have, and people flock to these conmen because they can’t possibly believe someone that wealthy could be bad.