How Big an Issue Will Corruption Become?
Even the New York Times dares mention the S-Word in regard to Minnesota corruption.
I’m getting the impression that both parties should start trying right now to recruit 2028 Presidential candidates who are currently members of the Missionaries of Charity order of nuns founded by Saint Mother Teresa or other saintly individuals who live out a strict vow of poverty, because voters will be awfully sick of financial corruption by then.
Trump’s first term was pretty heroic in terms of sacrificed self-interest as Trump Derangement System cost him a sizable chunk of his net worth. It was so crazy back then that golf tournaments got cancelled at Trump courses. (Professional golf is about 95% right-wing.)
For example, Turnberry is the Pebble Beach of Scotland and regularly hosted the British Open four times from 1977 through 2009 even though its original course was flattened for an RAF landing strip during WWII and its postwar rebuild wasn’t as good as it could be.
The Trump Organization bought Turnberry in 2014 and immediately hugely improved it, much better exploiting its rocky ocean cliffs.
But in 2015, the Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St. Andrews announced that Turnberry was banned from hosting The Open because Trump had criticized Mexican immigration.
On the other hand, Trump’s second term …
For example, right wing influencer Mike Cernovich recently tweeted:
Now, in the circles I hang out in, the question of which Tom Stoppard play you like best is a bigger topic than how to get rich while the getting is good. So I don’t know whether to believe Cernovich’s post. Still …
Meanwhile, Republicans point to the Biden family’s corruption.
Yeah, sure, but Joe Biden was always, even when President, a Delaware small-timer.
I don’t think President Trump would object to me characterizing him, in contrast, as a New York Big-Timer.
Still, he’d no doubt reject my further suggestion that the old concept of noblesse oblige implies that New York Big-Timers should have more stringent duties to set a good example.
Meanwhile, even the New York Times is getting sick of 2020s Democratic corruption in the name of Diversity.
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