I’ve been struggling for a few years now, trying to settle on an explanation for why this administration is so much worse than what has preceded it. We've seen a lot of bad policy, a fair amount of corruption and a lot of callousness out of past republican administrations. That hasn’t changed all that much, except in quantity.
There's something viscerally wrong with this group. They raise our hackles in ways Reagan and the Bushes never managed. It’s not just an embrace of all that’s wrong with America; it’s an outright effort to make all those things worse.
What makes them so deplorable?
In addition to their cruelty and their cowardice, there is something fundamentally grubby about them. Not grubby like little boys playing in puddles. Grubby like loan sharks charging 400% interest. Grubby like selling stolen phones off the back of a truck. Grubby like a pimp negotiating pricing with a sadist. It bleeds through everything they do. There’s always an ulterior motive.
Let’s charge a premium for accommodations to the Secret Service so I can make money while I cheat at golf.
Let’s charge the post office extra fees while I’m busy dismantling their ability to do their job.
Let’s sign some lucrative contracts on the side while I suborn perjury from the most corrupt members of your country’s leadership.
Let’s take contributions as kickbacks for releasing these oil and gas leases on Federal lands.
Let’s siphon some money away from our “Build the Wall” scam.
It goes on and on and on and on and on and…
Even with all the jail space we’d free up with real prison reform, we’d still need to construct new facilities just to house all the corrupt actors who participate in and surround the tRump administration.
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