Trump’s corruption is reshaping how American governance works
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.