There’s already a well-established word for a country run by rich elite. Calling the US a “banana republic” is a shocking headline, which I think is the real p

There’s already a well-established word for a country run by rich elite. Calling the US a “banana republic” is a shocking headline, which I think is the real point. The US economy is not very similar to actual banana republics though. There are some aspects which are becoming similar, yes, but also many in which they’re not. To me it reads as a clickbait headline.