Two billionaires, Donald Trump and Elon Musk, are squabbling over the federal government’s spoils. It seems almost quaint to worry about a revolving door between the public and private sectors now that the whole facade’s been blown off.

Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels famously observed that the “executive of the modern state is but a committee for managing the common affairs of the whole bourgeoisie.” In describing the “exclusive political sway” that the ruling class has over political representatives in capitalist democracies, they may have overestimated the need for an impartial-seeming middleman. Turns out billionaires are free to shamelessly pervert democracy for personal gain, no concealment necessary.

This week, as Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s alliance breaks down in a flurry of tau

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