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babylonsister

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Fri May 17, 2024, 07:13 AM May 17

The Loathsomeness of Trump World [View all]

http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/robert-reich/110412/the-loathsomeness-of-trump-world

The Loathsomeness of Trump World
by Robert Reich | May 16, 2024 - 6:56am

— from Robert Reich's Substack


Friends,

There is something important about Trump’s criminal trial in New York that’s not being openly talked about. I don’t mean we’re not getting the facts about what’s happening in Manhattan Superior Court. But something very big is being left out.

The trial has introduced us to a world of moral and ethical loathsomeness in which people use and abuse one another routinely. It’s Trump world.

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It’s a sell-or-tell society, a catch-and-kill society, a just-take-care-of-it society. A society where money and power are the only considerations. Where honor and integrity count for nothing.

I am not naive about how the world works. I’ve spent years in Washington, many of them around powerful people. I have seen the seamy side of American politics and business.

But the people who inhabit Trump world live in a more extreme place — where there are no norms, no standards of decency, no common good. There are only opportunities to make money off others and potential dangers of being ripped off by others.

It’s a place where there are no relationships, only transactions.

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