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A New Deal for Wall Street

Trump’s plans for mass privatization are a colossal giveaway to the 1%—and Democrats helped pave the way.

Rebecca Burns

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Rebecca Burns is an award-winning investigative reporter whose work has appeared in The Baffler, the Chicago Reader, The Intercept and other outlets. She is a contributing editor at In These Times. Follow her on Twitter @rejburns.
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