Google commands 90 percent of the search market. Seven in 10 of all Americans use Facebook. Amazon, Microsoft and Google control two-thirds of the internet’s cloud architecture — if any of it goes down, so does the web. Amazon owns 40 percent of the American e-commerce market.

What’s happening now, in one sense, is that the tech titans who have secured such large swaths of power over the digital world are increasingly comfortable wielding that power, openly, in the “real” world too; the tech oligarchs are becoming the American oligarchs, period, often using leverage from their digital platforms in tandem with their war chests of old-fashioned cash.