Five months ago, I offered my view about where we are and where we need to go. We need to meet America where it is, and build from common ground. America starts, I argued, disgusted with the corruption and failings of our government. The populism that beat Harris leveraged that disgust, not as Right versus Left, but as outsider versus insider.
This fact, I argued, was an enormous opportunity. Because as I predicted, this administration would answer none of the legitimate demands of this populism. Trump was not going to make America less corrupt. To the contrary: he would make it more corrupt. And he and Musk were not going to make America’s government more efficient. To the contrary: they would break government even more, to reinforce the idea that “government is not the solution … government is the problem.”
You can read my essay here. I’m sorry to report, its argument was understated.
We have never seen a more corrupt administration. Ever. The only defense the Republicans have is that this corruption is in the open. Biden’s, Mike Johnson said, was hidden. I deeply doubt the charges against the Biden’s. But the idea that the claims against them — tiny in comparison to the facts that stain this administration—are corruption because hidden, while the charges against Trump are not corruption because in the open is just embarrassing. In-plain-sight…
