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<blockquote data-quote="MAGONIA" data-source="post: 82641" data-attributes="member: 162"><p><strong>Democrats hold tighter institutional grip on traditional elite networks and parts of finance through credentialed staffing, regulatory complexity, and past donation tilts.</strong></p><p></p><p></p><p>Securities and investment industry gave [imath]280 million to Democrats/liberal groups versus[/imath]212 million to Republicans/conservatives in the 2023-2024 cycle. Finance, insurance, and real estate sectors have shown similar or stronger Democratic leans in multiple prior cycles, including 63-37 congressional split in 2018. Big finance profits from the dense rulebook Democrats expand—compliance costs and lobbying favor incumbents who already sit inside the system.</p><p></p><p></p><p>Democrats also dominate the credentialed cultural and administrative layers: Ivy League pipelines, legacy media, entertainment, NGOs, and federal bureaucracy overwhelmingly staff and fund their side. This creates revolving doors and policy that rewards managed globalism, financialization, and social engineering over raw production.</p><p></p><p></p><p><strong>Trump-aligned elites are rarer because most of them broke ranks from that consensus.</strong></p><p></p><p></p><p>In 2024, billionaires and families directed roughly [imath]1.36 billion to Republicans versus[/imath]413 million to Democrats—a 75-25 split favoring Trump. Elon Musk alone dropped over $290 million into Trump-aligned efforts, the largest single donor by far. Tech figures who had long backed Democrats—Zuckerberg, Bezos, Pichai—shifted: inaugural donations, policy changes at their companies, and public alignment after clashing with Biden-era regulators and speech controls.</p><p></p><p></p><p>These Trump elites stand out as disruptors—self-made builders in tech, energy, and finance who treat the administrative state as a growth-killing obstacle rather than a partner. Traditional Wall Street and coastal elites largely treated Trump as radioactive until policy pain and election results forced recalibration. The ones who moved early or hard are the exception, not the rule.</p><p></p><p></p><p>Both parties court money. Democrats captured more of the old institutional and regulatory elite for years; Trump pulled a visible slice of the productive, anti-consensus slice in 2024 when the costs of the prior setup became obvious. Money follows whoever holds power and writes rules that match self-interest.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MAGONIA, post: 82641, member: 162"] [B]Democrats hold tighter institutional grip on traditional elite networks and parts of finance through credentialed staffing, regulatory complexity, and past donation tilts.[/B] Securities and investment industry gave [imath]280 million to Democrats/liberal groups versus[/imath]212 million to Republicans/conservatives in the 2023-2024 cycle. Finance, insurance, and real estate sectors have shown similar or stronger Democratic leans in multiple prior cycles, including 63-37 congressional split in 2018. Big finance profits from the dense rulebook Democrats expand—compliance costs and lobbying favor incumbents who already sit inside the system. Democrats also dominate the credentialed cultural and administrative layers: Ivy League pipelines, legacy media, entertainment, NGOs, and federal bureaucracy overwhelmingly staff and fund their side. This creates revolving doors and policy that rewards managed globalism, financialization, and social engineering over raw production. [B]Trump-aligned elites are rarer because most of them broke ranks from that consensus.[/B] In 2024, billionaires and families directed roughly [imath]1.36 billion to Republicans versus[/imath]413 million to Democrats—a 75-25 split favoring Trump. Elon Musk alone dropped over $290 million into Trump-aligned efforts, the largest single donor by far. Tech figures who had long backed Democrats—Zuckerberg, Bezos, Pichai—shifted: inaugural donations, policy changes at their companies, and public alignment after clashing with Biden-era regulators and speech controls. These Trump elites stand out as disruptors—self-made builders in tech, energy, and finance who treat the administrative state as a growth-killing obstacle rather than a partner. Traditional Wall Street and coastal elites largely treated Trump as radioactive until policy pain and election results forced recalibration. The ones who moved early or hard are the exception, not the rule. Both parties court money. Democrats captured more of the old institutional and regulatory elite for years; Trump pulled a visible slice of the productive, anti-consensus slice in 2024 when the costs of the prior setup became obvious. Money follows whoever holds power and writes rules that match self-interest. [/QUOTE]
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