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On the eve of the US midterm elections, France 24 published an interview with historian Timothy Snyder, professor at the University of Toronto's Munk School of Global Affairs, on the future of American democracy. Snyder discussed the growing political influence of technology billionaires and the risks of a new Gilded Age, and asked who really holds power in Donald Trump's America. In the interview's headline, Snyder is quoted saying Trump is running US foreign policy "as though he were an organized criminal." The piece was framed around the question of whether the president or the billionaires around him hold real power.