https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/04/trump-kleptocracy-autocracy-inc/682281/
As the stock markets crashed on Friday, April 4, Donald Trump left Washington, D.C. He did not go to New York to consult with Wall Street. He did not go to Dover, Delaware, to receive the bodies of four American servicemen, killed in an accident while serving in Lithuania. Instead, he went to Florida, where he visited his Doral golf resort, which was hosting the Saudi-backed LIV Golf tournament, and stayed at his Mar-a-Lago club, where many tournament fans and sponsors were staying too. His private businesses took precedence over the business of the nation.
Earlier this year, I published a book, Autocracy, Inc., which argues that many modern dictatorships are best analyzed not through the prism of ideology but through the political and financial interests of the people who run them. The presence in the American government of so many people, most notably the president, whose financial interests can be directly and immediately affected by their political decisions means that we now need a different way of analyzing American policy too.
First, America is not a dictatorship.
ReplyDeleteSecond, no matter what Trump does, he gets criticized.
If he'd gone to consult with Wall Street, he'd be accused of trying to coerce financiers into making him money. If he went to receive the bodies of the soldiers, he'd be mocked for having called them "losers". So he went to golf. Good for him.
What must bug you most is that Trump is working within the system. He's broken no laws but instead used his strategic thinking and expensive lawyers to figure out legal ways to entrench his corruption. But it's all within the system.
Wow poor little victim What other nonsense do you have today. If Trump was convicted of any crime it is because he is always innocent and the nasty establishment, or Democrats or Leftists are trying to destroy him! This is basically cult thinking and you drink a lot of Kool Aide. Is it conceivable that Trump is a corrupt man and actually does the bad things he is accused of? You are implying the accusations are proof that he is innocent and his accusers are the criminals.
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