Tech Billionaires & the Rural Poor: Two Sides of Trump’s MAGA Populism
In this episode of On with Kara Swisher, journalist Kara Swisher hosts Beth Macy and Jacob Silverman to explore how both rural working-class Americans and Silicon Valley tech billionaires have been radicalized under the MAGA movement, despite their vastly different socioeconomic backgro
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