The reality is that US government has always been a private club for the billionaire class, they just used to have the decency to hide it behind closed doors. Musk’s real crime is skipping the velvet rope and letting us all see the sausage being made. Bravo, Elon, for finally making oligarchy transparent.
It is different this time, the Democrats have done such a good job at being the shit candidate who accomplishes fuck all that the Republicans can be fully transparent and don’t have to waste time hiding any of it. (so it’s not actually different, they just changed from frosted glass to clear glass)