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Americans are weirdly cavalier about this, but Hungary would seem to prove stupendous corruption is eventually unpopular. and world-historical theft is what happens when you elect right-wing authoritarians, every single time

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They are not cavalier. They are uninformed. A majority of Americans are too busy trying to survive a daily existence to have more than vague understanding of current events. Multiple complicit news sources ignore the corruption The Dems need to make it a story and relevant to people’s struggles

Basically zero media discussion about how almost all our government programs and services have been erased, while taxes for regular people went up (thanks in part to the stupid illegal tariffs). So where's the money going?🤔 At least this would be a normal journalistic inquiry.

corruption is like the #1 issue of the era, people on all sides are deeply opposed to it, yet it's only discussed seriously by the fringes of elected officials. facts that are bound to make you conspiratorial

And Orban really came in with huge majorities and was able to rewrite the constitution. John Roberts has been rewriting the constitution without popular support, but that can fall with one court-packing bill

It was also a glass house situation, at least during the war. Between price controls and vast amounts of contractors, they had to make Truman VP to shut him up.