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Ralph Nader: How Some Courageous Super Rich Can Save Our Country From Trump’s Expanding Dictatorship – OpEd

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28.12.2025

There are reportedly about 900 billionaires (probably more) in the U.S. About five percent can be described as enlightened people who know the importance of contributing to organizations that advance justice. They are also appalled by the Trump dictatorship and are not placated simply because he gave them tax cuts, deregulation, and maybe corporate welfare. On their minds is the well-being and freedoms of millions of their fellow Americans, whose lives are being cruelly and viciously wrecked by Trump, as he destroys the federal civil service.

I’ve talked with some of these very rich people (VRP) and heard them say they want to get engaged, so appalled are they by the lawless, egomaniacal, self-enriching, violent plutocrat Trump and his dump. Trump and COMPANY are only going to get MUCH WORSE.  What follows are some suggestions on how the VRPs can get underway.

1. Sponsor a massive day of protest demanding the impeachment or resignation of Tyrant Trump. More will turn out than did the seven million Americans marching in hundreds of communities under the “No Kings” banner. – A growing majority of people already want this to happen.

With skilled management and verification, these marchers can be asked to take out their iPhones and contribute what they can to create strong local groups that resist Trump’s ongoing wreckage of our basic social safety net, our regulatory health, safety, and economic protections, and our voting rights against Trumpian planned interference in the 2026 elections. Even with just an average of a $10 contribution, at least $100 million would be raised on the protest day to give Americans daily........

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