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Although it is tempting to see the Trump regime's corruption " its open profiteering, its use of the state as an instrument of vengeance and self-enrichment " as a perversion of American democracy, the truth is more unsettling:
it's a mirror. The difference between Trump's era and those before it is not the presence of corruption, but its visibility and the nation's collective incapacity to feel scandalized by it.