"Trump's corruption rages on unchecked, not because people don't see it, but because they no longer believe anything better is possible.

To be scandalized, after all, is still to believe in a moral world that can be violated. What we face now is something darker: a society that no longer believes in its own possibility for redemption."

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"Rebuilding an ethical imagination will require more than exposing corruption. It will require building genuine public and civic institutions designed to serve working-class people rather than the interests of the wealthy and investing in forms of collective, reciprocal caregiving that give democratic ethics concrete life and value."

The article is a good read throughout.