Trump’s corruption leaves us cynical – and complacent | Judith Levine

Impunity breeds popular cynicism, and cynicism undergirds autocracy As his mentor Roy Cohn counseled , Donald Trump never admits wrongdoing or apologizes. But he occasionally evinces something resembling a qualm. In October, considering renewing claims against the government for $230m in compensation for federal investigations against him, he reflected on his own appointees deciding on the payout and him signing off on it. “It sort of looks bad, I’m suing myself, right?” he said. “So, I don’t kn

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