“A REPUBLIC, IF YOU CAN KEEP IT,” IS LOSING OUT TO “MUH DEMOCRACY”:

Late-stage democracy is more descriptive than “end-stage capitalism.” What you’re seeing is a predictable failure mode of a system in which people can vote themselves more money. That’s not a failure of capitalism, that’s unrestrained democracy robbing capitalism. https://t.co/ZyMi0Yry8t

— Payton Alexander (@AlexanderPayton) October 27, 2026

Inevitable? I don’t know. But it’s certainly painful.