"...At this point Trump and his MAGA minions have stolen so much, committed so many crimes — not just theft but taking America to war illegally, abusing ICE detainees, and much more — that if and when they lose power many of them will face personal ruin at best, years of jail time at worst. This would happen even if they stopped committing more crimes.
"So there’s no incentive for them to end their criminality, or to end the attempts to bribe others to go along. Either they succeed in destroying America as we know it, or they won’t. And until that’s resolved, they may as well engage in even more corruption and criminal acts.
"Think of it this way: The gravity of what the Trumpists have already done has created a sort of black hole at the center of American political life — and the Trumpists have already crossed the event horizon, the boundary beyond which there is no escape. So they will do ever more terrible things, because they have nothing more to lose." -- Paul Krugman, concluding his Substack essay on "The Looting of America" by the Malignant Fascist and his MAGA minions. It's been noted that the looting of America is all part of the "me first" MF / MAGA DNA. And as the post below discusses, the Orwellian "Anti-Weaponization Fund" created to reimburse the MF's worst, most violent and un-democratic shock troops is just the latest openly corrupt outrage. Krugman predicts (and we agree) the regime's criminality from top to bottom will continue and quite probably accelerate because there's no incentive for them to do otherwise.
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