Sasha Abramsky, The Nation - While Congress fiddles, Trump, Musk, Vance, and their congressional enablers are doing what generations of terrorists have failed to do, what the Soviet Union failed to do, what the Japanese, Italian, and German armies in World War II failed to do. Draped in red, white, and blue, and ostensibly espousing an America First nationalism, they are knocking down not only buildings but the very pillars of US government and civil society, and empowering not ordinary Joes but centi-billionaire oligarchs. On a scale that would make the participants in President Warren Harding’s Teapot Dome Scandal blush, they are opening up the entire country to corruption and kleptocracy by dismantling anti-corruption units, firing government inspectors general, getting rid of ethics ombudsmen, and embracing an explicit quid pro quo foreign policy. More
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