Coyne: Tech oligarchy poses unique threat to democracy

October 10, 2025

Andrew Coyne: This is what makes today’s tech oligarchs such a unique threat: not only that they have acquired such wealth, and not only that they can deploy it to furthering their political ends with so few constraints, and not only that they have aligned themselves with such a malignant force as Donald Trump, but that they are themselves so utterly detached from reality…