Donald Trump is the poster child for the new Gilded Age of Robber Barons - The Resurgence of the American Plutocracy.
And the kind of ugly claim to entitlement that Trump embodies goes way back.
Droit du seigneur ('right of the lord'), also known as jus primae noctis ('right of the first night'), sometimes referred to as prima nocta, was a supposed legal right in medieval Europe, allowing feudal lords to have sexual relations with any female subject, particularly on her wedding night.
If you've got the money, you've got the power. And with enough money and power, you can do whatever the fuck you want.
You've Been Trumped Too (2020) [01:18:54] story of a billionaire who refuses to turn on an elderly woman's water
byu/howardhughesbrain inDocumentaries
I don't know how many old westerns I've seen where the local cattle baron buys up water rights, or builds a dam upstream from the farmers to force them off their land, so he can snap up more for himself.
Shit's gotta change
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