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Why the rich like Trump

Janan Ganesh

Financial Times

Stephen Schwarzman, the CEO of Blackstone, is supporting Donald Trump, says Janan Ganesh. Other billionaires and entrepreneurs will follow suit. Why? “Don’t always look for the material motive. There is such a thing as wrongness.” The first reason is they “struggle to understand fanaticism”. In commercial life, “all actors are negotiable, even if their price is high”. They might never come across someone totally committed to an abstract doctrine (socialism), or a cause or

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