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Friday afternoon the Trump administration released a formal proposal to ring Lafayette Square with a permanent fence up to ten feet tall and to install gates across Pennsylvania Avenue at 15th and 17th Streets, all of it designed so officials can seal off America\u2019s most famous protest ground within minutes.<\/p>\n

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Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton had already introduced legislation to stop Trump, warning that we shouldn\u2019t leave \u201ccitizens peering at their democracy from behind permanent fences.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lafayette Square is where Alice Paul and her Silent Sentinels stood through freezing winters demanding that Woodrow Wilson support women\u2019s suffrage, and where peaceful protesters were gassed and beaten in June of 2020 so Donald Trump could stroll across the park for a photo op, Bible in hand. <\/p>\n

For over two centuries, every president since John Adams has had to look out his window at Americans exercising their First Amendment right to tell him exactly what they think of him. <\/p>\n

This administration proposes to end that tradition with steel pickets spaced four inches apart, and to have the whole apparatus ready as we head toward a November election that could break the GOP\u2019s grip on Congress or see open corruption of our election by Trump\u2019s goons, which would inevitably lead to mass protests.<\/p>\n

Governments that trust their own people don\u2019t wall themselves off from them; fortress states do. <\/p>\n

And by a remarkable coincidence, this was the same week that one of the richest men in Russia gave the world a sixty-hour guided tour of life inside a mature fortress state, along with a warning about where that road ends that every American should know about.<\/p>\n

The Economist just published an extraordinary profile of Andrey Melnichenko, whose fertilizer, coal, energy, and logistics empire accounts for roughly one full percent of Russia\u2019s entire GDP, and who was the richest man in the country when Putin invaded Ukraine. <\/p>\n

For twenty years Melnichenko lived the bargain Putin offered Russia\u2019s oligarchs: stay out of politics and you can keep your fortune, your yacht, your villa in Switzerland. Then came the Ukraine war, the sanctions, and finally the shakedown. <\/p>\n

In 2023, Putin\u2019s prosecutors moved to confiscate one of Melnichenko\u2019s Siberian power companies, and the case quietly evaporated two weeks later, right after he donated 32 billion rubles, about $335 million, to a school for gifted children that operates under Putin\u2019s personal patronage. <\/p>\n

In a fully realized oligarchy \u2014 like Putin has established in Russia and Trump is trying to create here with pardons and government contracts essentially for sale \u2014 that\u2019s what legal property rights become: a subscription service, renewable at the pleasure of the man at the top.<\/p>\n

Melnichenko told The Economist that he can see only four possible futures for Russia if it stays on the current course Putin is pursuing, every one of them grim: <\/p>\n

\u2014 It can crawl back to a victorious West as a defeated vassal, which he predicts would provoke the same revanchist rage that the Versailles treaty incubated in Germany a century ago and that led straight to World War II.
\u2014 It can settle permanently into China\u2019s orbit as a resource colony with a flag and faint appearance of independence.
\u2014 It can fragment into civil conflict, with warlords fighting over the pieces of a nuclear-armed state.
\u2014 Or it can finish its transformation into a continental North Korea, a garrison society sustained by rationing, repression, isolation, and what he describes as turning \u201cexternal confrontation into a permanent instrument of domestic politics.\u201d<\/p>\n

That fourth scenario, which he says is under serious discussion inside the Kremlin, describes a government that identifies permanent enemies abroad and at home to justify permanent repression of its own citizens. <\/p>\n

Anyone who\u2019s watched masked federal agents disappearing people off American streets, or read this administration\u2019s directives treating its domestic political opposition as a terrorist threat, or looked at the blueprints for that fence around Lafayette Square, has seen the early architecture of exactly that.<\/p>\n

And Melnichenko\u2019s preferred alternative for Russia against these four possibilities? He names it, with a candor you rarely hear from men of his class, as \u201coligarchy in the classical sense of the word.\u201d <\/p>\n

Rule by elites. Businessmen, technocrats, and nationalists would govern the country together, cutting deals among themselves because the four alternatives threaten their fortunes and their family dynasties, while ordinary Russians continue receiving what he frankly admits has so far been \u201ca simulation of participation.\u201d<\/p>\n

Surprised that a billionaire\u2019s best imaginable future for his nation is rule by billionaires? <\/p>\n

Ours have been saying the same thing out loud for years about America. Peter Thiel, the money behind JD Vance\u2019s entire political career, wrote for the Cato Institute back in 2009 that \u201cI no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible,\u201d and he and many of his morbidly rich colleagues have spent the years since funding politicians and projects built explicitly to act on that conviction.<\/p>\n

Melnichenko is a useful analyst for this critical time in both Russian and American history precisely because he\u2019s no cartoon villain, and he\u2019s barely ideological at all. <\/p>\n

Ammonia from his plants ends up in Russian munitions, he coordinates with Putin\u2019s military and secret police to protect his factories from Ukrainian drones, and he explicitly avoids \u201cmoral judgments\u201d about things like democracy because he considers them a \u201cdistraction\u201d from \u201cdesigning systems that work.\u201d Sort of like when Elon Musk said: <\/p>\n

\u201cThe fundamental weakness of Western civilization is empathy.\u201c<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Honor\u00e9 de Balzac gets credit for the observation that, \u201cBehind every great fortune lies a great crime,\u201d and Melnichenko\u2019s own history, which began with an illegal currency exchange run out of a Moscow State University dorm room and protected by moonlighting police cadets, fits the pattern comfortably. <\/p>\n

His way of thinking is common among men who\u2019ve accumulated billions: they deal in what works, what maintains stability, what\u2019s most efficient, and who can be bought or brought along, while \u201cesoteric\u201d and \u201cidealistic\u201d concepts like democracy, individual rights, and \u201cthe pursuit of happiness\u201d only enter the calculation as variables to be managed.<\/p>\n

That same mindset built America\u2019s modern oligarchy. Exxon\u2019s own scientists, for example, predicted global warming with alarming internal memos starting in the late 1970s, and the company\u2019s executives, having weighed the future of our planet and our children against their bottom line, spent the next four decades funding lies to keep us burning their product and filling their money bins. <\/p>\n

It was nothing personal: they were simply setting aside empathy while optimizing their own incomes, and the habitability of our planet was simply a variable.<\/p>\n

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The blueprint for the larger project was drafted in 1971, when tobacco lawyer Lewis Powell, two months before Nixon put him on the Supreme Court, sent a confidential memorandum to the US Chamber of Commerce calling on American business to organize, fund, and capture the universities, the media, the courts, and the American political system itself. <\/p>\n

Out of that memo grew the think tanks, the \u201cscholars for hire,\u201d and the vast rightwing media machines that have spent five decades teaching Americans to distrust their own government, oligarchs arguing essentially that oligarchy is preferable to democracy. <\/p>\n

Reagan\u2019s functional suspension of our anti-monopoly laws in the 1980s then let a handful of men amass fortunes larger than any human beings had ever held, morbidly rich on a scale even the pharaohs never dreamed of, and today those men fund virtually every Republican in Congress along with a distressing number of Democrats.<\/p>\n

Their wholly-owned toadies on the Supreme Court have spent the last half-century legalizing the purchase of the American government, a story I tell at length in my new book Who Killed the American Dream?<\/em> <\/p>\n

The foundation was a fraudulent headnote slipped into an 1886 Supreme Court decision falsely claiming the Court had ruled that corporations are persons with rights under the 14th Amendment; Citizens United<\/em> built on that fraud in 2010 by declaring that corporate and billionaire money is constitutionally protected speech. <\/p>\n

But it gets worse: in 2024 the Court\u2019s six corrupt Republicans ruled in Snyder v. United States<\/em> that officials who take payments after<\/em> performing favors have merely accepted legal \u201cgratuities\u201d rather than bribes. Yeah, billionaires can now legally give tips<\/em> to judges and politicians. <\/p>\n

And just two weeks ago the same six on-the-take justices struck down the post-Watergate limits on coordinated party spending, freeing the morbidly rich to invisibly<\/em> pour unlimited money through the parties directly into their chosen candidates\u2019 campaigns, four months before the midterms. Justice Kagan warned in dissent that the RNC and DNC can now simply function as an oligarch\u2019s or corporation\u2019s secret checking account for their selected candidates and the public will never know who bought their election and owns their politicians.<\/p>\n

Putin\u2019s oligarchs and ours arrived by opposite roads: his through a state that swallowed its billionaires and ours through billionaires who swallowed their state, but the citizens of both countries ended up in the same place under either arrangement: on the outside, holding a \u201csimulation of participation\u201d while men like Musk buy our elections and the favors our politicians can bestow. <\/p>\n

So Americans should ask the question Melnichenko asked about Russia: What futures are actually on our<\/em> menu? I can count four, and the parallels are uncomfortable.<\/p>\n

The first is aristocratic dictatorship. America completes its realignment away from the world\u2019s democracies and toward Moscow, Beijing, and the Gulf monarchies that Trump and Vance so visibly admire, and the world gets run as a cartel of strongmen and sovereign wealth funds while our Constitution becomes a mere decoration. Much of our current foreign policy already points in this direction.<\/p>\n

The second is civil conflict that tears our country apart. Prominent voices on the right have been openly fantasizing about civil war for years, and a government that expects to be loved doesn\u2019t need a ten-foot fence around Lafayette Square or gates across Pennsylvania Avenue. Building permanent infrastructure to wall off protest four months before a national election shouts at us that Trump and Vance are planning for a coming confrontation with the American people.<\/p>\n

The third is slow imperial decline, the road Britain walked after the two world wars: a once-dominant nation growing gradually poorer, shabbier, and more irrelevant while its aristocracy extracts whatever\u2019s left. This is oligarchy\u2019s default trajectory, the one we\u2019re already on if nothing dramatic intervenes<\/em>, and it ends with our grandchildren living in a country that used to matter but is now subject to the whims of its oligarchs and more powerful nations.<\/p>\n

The fourth is democratic renewal, the road Abraham Lincoln and Franklin Roosevelt opened and JFK and LBJ paved: breaking up concentrated wealth and power, taxing the morbidly rich, and building the healthcare, education, childcare, and retirement security that working people in Scandinavia and most of the rest of the developed world now take for granted. <\/p>\n

Unlike the other three, this future has a living constituency and a vibrancy that\u2019s been missing from the American political scene since the days of JFK. <\/p>\n

Just three weeks ago, voters across New York swept young progressives and democratic socialists into Democratic nominations, toppling establishment incumbents despite millions in super PAC money arrayed against them, because ordinary Americans keep voting for economic democracy whenever somebody credible actually offers it.<\/p>\n

Russia is probably too far down the road of tyranny to make a sudden transition like this back to democracy; its independent press is dead, its opposition leaders are in prison, in exile, or in the ground, and even its billionaire would-be reformer can\u2019t imagine anything better than a politer class of elites running the place. <\/p>\n

We\u2019re not there yet. Our elections still mostly count, some of our courts still hold, our press is battered but breathing, and we still retain the right, for now, to stand in front of the White House and say, \u201cNo!\u201d Every one of those things is on the ballot this November, and the people fencing off Lafayette Square understand that better than most.<\/p>\n

Melnichenko offered one more observation that applies as much to Washington as to Moscow:<\/p>\n

The Russian regime looked absolutely impregnable in 1913, and again in 1986, and both of those governments were gone within a few years. He quotes former Russian prime minister Yegor Gaidar\u2019s line that, \u201cBig changes come later than we think but earlier than we expect.\u201d <\/p>\n

That\u2019s true of dictatorships, and it\u2019s equally true of oligarchies as I point out in The Hidden History of American Oligarchy. <\/em><\/p>\n

Working people get angry when confronted with an exploitative rule by the rich and then rise up in revolt. We can see this happening in Argentina right this moment.<\/p>\n

At that point, a nation\u2019s leadership must choose between abandoning oligarchy and going back to democracy \u2014 as we did with Lincoln taking on the oligarchs of the Confederacy in 1861, and FDR\u2019s New Deal presidency in 1933 \u2014 or bringing down the iron fist and converting the oligarchy into dictatorship, as Putin did in Russia. <\/p>\n

Oligarchy, as I detail in that book, is always<\/em> a transitional form of government that either reverts to democracy or transitions to dictatorship. It rarely last more than a single generation.<\/p>\n

Thus, which kind of sudden change America experiences \u2014 the hard snap into strongman rule or the breaking of billionaire power over our government, purging dark money, and a restoration of democracy \u2014 will largely be decided by what we all do between now and the first Tuesday in November.<\/p>\n

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