Trump and the money men: Billionaires are repeating the Hitler mistake

Stephen Schwarzman's Yale alma mater has been riven since the Civil War , says Julian Zelizer .

Zelizer: Some Yale alumnus, like Schwarzman , foreclosed on properties whose residents had been hoodwinked into over-leveraging their purchases in ways that doomed their ownership.

He asks: What will today 's Ivy League alums decide to do about what Harvard political theorist Danielle Allen describes as " The Road to Serfdom ".

Henry George warned that a government of universal suffrage and theoretical equality may, under conditions which impel the change, most readily become a despotism.

We need to intervene in other ways, not only by voting against Trump but by reconfiguring our priorities and habits as investors and as citizens.