2024 June 20, Carole Cadwalladr, “Tech broligarchs are lining up to court Trump. And Vance is one more link in the chain”, in The Guardian[1]:
The broligarchs have made their move – and the rest of us need to understand exactly what that means.
2024 August 14, Bryn Haworth, “Artificial Ignorance: broligarchs and their brains should read Gulliver”, in Al Majalla[2]:
Thiel is not alone in his interest in a Trump victory: Marc Andreessen, Ben Horowitz, and more recently, Elon Musk are fellow MAGA broligarch bedfellows.
2024 August 15, Emily McCloskey, “Broligarchs Are Wrong About Unrealized Gains”, in Patriotic Millionaires[3]:
No one is denying that there would be an administrative burden to enforcing a regular tax on unrealized capital gains, as some assets would surely be challenging to value annually, but it wouldn’t be as hard as broligarchs and other pundits make it out to be.
2024 November 27, Brooke Harrington, “What the Broligarchs Want From Trump”, in The Atlantic[4]:
The broligarchs’ ranks also include the PayPal and Palantir co-founder Peter Thiel–Vice President-Elect J. D. Vance’s mentor, former employer, and primary financial backer–as well as venture capitalists like Marc Andreessen and David Sacks, both of whom added millions of dollars to Trump’s campaign.
2024 November 15, David Dayton, Smoke & Mirrored Screens: An Alt-History Novel of What Didn't Just Happen[5], unnumbered page:
In 2022, Gress ran for Senator in Ohio, his campaign financed largely by Rank Dewar, his broligarch patron and investment fund mentor.
2024 December 26, Clarence Page, “Musk takes on Washington, but can he take over?”, in Richmond Free Press[6], volume 33, number 52, page A6:
The corporate class has gotten wise to this, which explains the procession of tech CEOs, founders, venture capitalists and other “broligarchs” who have filed through Mar-a-Lago in recent weeks to flatter and supplicate Trump.
2025 February, Richard Godwin, “What Is a dudebro?”, in The Oldie[7], number 448, page 12:
And there is 'First Buddy' Elon Musk, one of the billionaire broligarchs who stand to benefit from his presidency.
2025 January 22, Colin Williams, “Trump Chumps”, in Philadelphia City Paper[8], page 8:
He came second only to broligarch-in-chief Elon Musk in largesse this election cycle.
2025 January 24, Aambar Agarwal, “Welcome to the broligarchy”, in The Case Western Reserve Observer[9], volume LVI, number 16, page 9:
The tech bros are America's new oligarchs—or as some might say, “broligarchs.”
2025 January 28, Arwa Mahdawi, “While Musk and Altman wage their silly little feud, China is making all the broligarchs look like chumps”, in The Guardian[10]:
Of course, it is not as if the AI broligarchs need any help looking like power-hungry sociopaths.
