"...The Trump administration is a laboratory for a 21st century authoritarian politics of plunder: extreme environmental destruction, protection of sex traffickers who use and discard women, the privatization of foreign and other state policy, integrating oligarchs into governance, massive corruption, and the ruination of public health, accurate information, and other areas vital to human thriving.
"This is why Trump and MAGA will be defeated. Dictatorships are not built to navigate a future in which survival of climate-change, disasters, resource scarcity, a shrinking labor force, and armed conflict will require fact-based communications, community, care, altruism, and other things such states work hard to suppress. We who resist dictatorship, wherever we are located in the world, are the wave of the future." -- Ruth Ben-Ghiat, in her "Lucid" Substack on how "Strongmen Fall When Corruption Is On The Ballot." Following the defeat of right-wing autocrats Aleksandar Vučić in Serbia and Flavio Bolonsaro in Brazil, Ben-Ghiat makes the case that the Malignant Fascist's fellow autocrats' corruption was a key to bringing them down, and Democrats are wisely tying the MF's unprecedented corruption ("plunder") to the struggles of everyday Americans. Fortunately for Democrats, they're not alone in making the case: the moron MF is helping make the case for them with his billion-dollar-plus, over-the-top vanity projects and bragging about how Epstein class oligarchs are getting rich off of high oil prices. And, yes, the corruption of concealing the MF and his cronies' coverup of the Epstein sex trafficking files. So, please proceed!
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