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Sure, the US has been in a better political situation in the past than it’s in at present. No argument there. The title of the post we’re commenting on contains the words “in 2026”, though.

The open corruption of the current US administration is in fact something quite unprecedented in a stable democracy. Corruption obviously exists everywhere, to varying extents. In most democratic countries, leaders try to hide it, and the media reports on it as a scandal when it’s discovered. Trump, meanwhile, is making huge amounts of money through a wide variety of corrupt schemes while making no attempt to cover any of the corruption up. This is simply accepted as the new normal.