The mounting worry among big investors, insiders say, is the threat of a left-wing takeover of Congress, conjuring nightmare scenarios of Democratic Socialists on Capitol Hill looking to throttle deals as they grill tech executives over everything from AI-sparked job losses to deepfakes.

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      The “suckers” here are mostly ordinary people’s retirement savings, because index funds are obligated to buy at whatever price the stock trades, with no say on valuation. Fast-track inclusion hands early investors and insiders a guaranteed, price-blind buyer to sell into, and pensioners end up as the exit liquidity.