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hay rick

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16. We need a New Square Deal.

Fri Feb 20, 2026, 10:23 AM

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I believe we need to run on a program of hyper-aggressive trust-busting. In 1912, Theodore Roosevelt's Progressive Party proclaimed "to dissolve the unholy alliance between corrupt business and corrupt politics is the first task of the statesmanship of the day." The tech bros need to have their oligopoly toys split up into multiple independent entities with restrictions on overlapping ownership.

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