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Jeff Bezos’s Shocking Suck-Up Moment with Trump Should Alarm Us All

Jeff Bezos’s Shocking Suck-Up Moment with Trump Should Alarm Us All

As Jeff Bezos fawns over Trump's victory, Philadelphia Inquirer columnist Will Bunch talks about what this portends about institutions surrendering in the face of Trump's coming authoritarian rule.

THE DAILY BLAST with Greg Sargent · Greg Sargent

November 8, 202422m 46s

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Show Notes

This week, after Donald Trump won the election, Jeff Bezos issued an extraordinary tweet: He didn’t just congratulate Trump; he also bent over backwards to hail his extraordinary political comeback. We think this is a bad sign of what’s coming: People in key institutional positions going out of their way to curry favor with Trump in advance. How bad will this get? We talked to Philadelphia Inquirer national columnist Will Bunch, author of a good column about Bezos’s bended knee to Trump. Bunch explains what all this portends about the surrender of key institutions in the face of Trump’s coming strongman ruleand what we can do about it.

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