Ham-fisted Nazi analogies and dumb post-Soviet oracles—these are a few of Stephen Colbert’s favorite things. On Tuesday’s edition of The Late Show on CBS, Colbert welcomed actor Nathan Lane and New York Times columnist Ezra Klein to his show to lament the Trump Administration where it was warned that the Trump era will feature pro-Nazi versions of The Sound of Music and that Elon Musk represents the kind of oligarch that arose in the aftermath of the Soviet Union.
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As for Klein, he saw a great conspiracy in Elon Musk’s budget-cutting efforts, “Look, they don't want it to work, and then the fear a lot of us have is they're going to make it fail and they're going to say, ‘See, it doesn't work? I know you need me to take it over.’ It's not that they are just trying to make it not work, right? If all Elon Musk was trying to was make government fail, that's one thing. They're trying to break it so they can take it over.”
Colbert observed, “Very much like after the Soviet Union, everything that was state-controlled got privatized, and that's how you rose another class of oligarchs.”
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