broligarch
English
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This English term is a hot word. Its inclusion on Wiktionary is provisional.
Etymology
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[edit]broligarch (plural broligarchs)
- (neologism, politics) An extremely wealthy man who holds inordinate power or influence within a political structure, especially while espousing a range of views regarded as anti-democratic, technofascist, and masculinist.
- 2024 August 14, Bryn Haworth, “Artificial Ignorance: broligarchs and their brains should read Gulliver”, in Al Majalla[1]:
- 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[2]:
- 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.
- 2025 January 31, Ross Douthat, quoting Steve Bannon, “Steve Bannon on ‘Broligarchs’ vs. Populism”, in The New York Times[3], →ISSN:
- President Trump listens to a lot of voices, and he will think it over, and then he’ll make a decision. And clearly, the tech broligarchs have, because of their ability to get in there, and I consider the Inauguration Day like they’re on display, like on the deck of the battleship Missouri.
- 2025 February, Richard Godwin, “What Is a dudebro?”, in The Oldie[4], number 448, page 12:
- And there is 'First Buddy' Elon Musk, one of the billionaire broligarchs who stand to benefit from his presidency.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:broligarch.