Trump is on trial for abusing his power – the Davos elites should join him | Robert Reich

While the Senate mulls his fate, the president plans to speak to world economic leaders every bit as impeachable as him

As the Senate debates Donald Trump's future, chief executives, financiers and politicians will descend on Davos in the Swiss Alps for their annual self-congratulatory defense of global capitalism.

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Popular anger is boiling over against elites seen as irredeemably greedy, corrupt and indifferent

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Robert Reich, a former US secretary of labor, is professor of public policy at the University of California at Berkeley and the author of Saving Capitalism: For the Many, Not the Few and The Common Good. His next book, The System: Who Rigged It, How We Fix It, will be out in March. He is a columnist for Guardian US