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by addicted 440 days ago
The word corruption sounds inadequate for an administration that is built on the idea that doesn’t even pretend to recognize laws to follow.

Just as an example of what I mean, no other democracy in the world has a cabinet filled with a bunch of billionaires.

In any other democracy in the world, the leader simply couldn’t openly appoint his biggest donor who also happened to be the biggest government contractor to go ahead and control government payments right out in the open.

There are dozens of things Trump had done openly that would have resulted in massive scandals in even some of the least democratic democracies in the world.