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 Trumps criminal trial in New York thats not being openly talked about. I dont mean were not getting the facts about whats 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. Its Trump world.
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Its 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. Ive 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.
Its a place where there are no relationships, only transactions.
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