like, there’s a wink wink nod nod corruption that trump could probably get away with, there’s a dumb and cynical “they’re all like that” he could get away with, but he can’t get away with looking directly into the camera and saying “i am stealing from you stupid hogs”, which is what he does now

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importantly, they could get the press corps to pretend they agreed there were serious adults around, and i think the zacharia shitshow may have ended that for them, too

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I do think something has now fundamentally broken trust wise

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this is the pretty obvious endpoint of having a billionaire president who openly cronies around with and publicly demands bribes from other billionaires, even if it took awhile

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i think part of it is that voters are now having to think about actual, open, obvious corruption. it’s not the usual “they’re all corrupt and all the same” business, this cabinet has been staggeringly open about how they’re stealing everything not nailed down

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