Trump will persist with the claim that he is working on a populist plan. In actuality, he is cooking up a fiscally irresponsible gift to plutocrats

So if you’re a plutocrat with ownership of the nation’s most influential media outlets, what do you do? You dispense with democracy altogether – after all, it keeps empowering candidates and policies you dislike.

In theory, the winners could fully compensate the losers and still come out ahead. But the winners don’t compensate the losers.

Michiganders were aghast and killed the "emergency manager" law with a ballot initiative. The legislature’s response? It passed an even more draconian version of the law. Democracy didn't fail -- it was stolen.

Find a place for yourself, at whatever level, wherever you are, in the struggle for democracy. This is the fight of our lives and how it ends is up to us.

Most libertarians oppose government intervention of any type, unless it's for national defense, surveillance, prison funding, subsidies to oil companies, bailouts and anything to do with women's bodies.