Trump’s corruption is reshaping how American governance works
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Beauchamp argues that Trump’s self-dealing signals a broader project to overturn the US’s rule-of-law, open-access order in favor of personal access and rent-seeking—evidenced by a $1.776B anti-weaponization fund, IRS-audit immunity, 3,700 stock trades before policy shifts, and a $1.55B Trump-family crypto windfall—threatening democracy and the economy by eroding impersonal governance.
Topics:nation#corruption#democracy#donald-trump#note-extra-tag-not-allowed#open-access-order#politics#rent-seeking
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