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As long as the press remains shackled by the gilded chains of billionaire overlords, freedom lies in chains as well, leaving us in a world of corporate domination.

Furthermore, though Mr. Reed presents himself as an intellectually superior theologian, gilding his carefully-choreographed arguments with props and theatrical flourishes, the script itself doesn’t hold him in the same regard.

The presidency, he said, is “a little bit like being in a gilded jail cell.”

With “Maria,” he’s got the gilded cage, but little of the bird’s desperation.

A lot of people believe that this current antidemocratic moment began when Donald Trump descended the gilded escalator at Trump Tower.