The Trump administration’s cartoonish graft presents a unique opportunity for a populist anti-corruption platform. But for the Democrats to pull it off, they’d have to repudiate corruption within their own party first.
  • cosmicrookie@lemmy.world
    10·
    3 days ago

    The key?

    That door isn’t even locked. Nobody is even trying to open it though.

    There are hundreds of ways he’d be beaten without even trying, if it were in any other country

    • OpenStars@piefed.socialEnglish
      31·
      3 days ago

      Upvoting but also… so not get complacent. Likewise Brexit would have only happened to the UK, and each nation is vulnerable to its own particular, possibly even unique thing. So if there were sufficient interest from an outside or inside agenda to exploit that vulnerability… what happened in the USA could - and if you open your eyes you will see already is - occur elsewhere as well. The USA is speed running it, but similar shifts are moving forward more slowly everywhere these days.

  • Lucky_777@lemmy.world
    3·
    2 days ago

    I mean Trump ran on “Drain the Swamp”, too bad he meant all the good people left in Washington.

    • not_woody_shaw@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      2 days ago

      Same as “Brexit means brexit” - it’s whatever you want to hear. Although “Drain the swamp” was slightly more expertly obfuscated.