WASHINGTON

“Democracy is in peril” is the warning bubbling up all over popular culture.

President Donald Trump is enjoying his second term, one made sweeter after wins in both the Electoral College and the popular vote. I don’t think the warnings about authoritarian rule are coincidental.

Take the new Max (better known as HBO) movie, “Mountainhead,” which features four tech bros spending the weekend in an architectural marvel of a Utah mountain retreat with a name that rhymes with Ayn Rand’s opus, “The Fountainhead.”

There is trouble in paradise.

Tucked away from the rest of the world, the titans doom scroll on their phones, where they find videos of deep-fake inspired riots, assassinations and governments collapsing across the globe. Their technology played a role in the global train

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