Neoliberalism’s Frankenstein and the limits of toxic polity

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It doesn’t really matter much that Donald Trump is an observable psychopath who holds democratic conventions in contempt and has a business model that revolves around borrowing billions, harvesting government contracts, and avoiding paying tax.

It doesn’t matter that he arranged a near coup that went within a hair’s breadth of overthrowing US democracy when he last departed office.

It doesn’t really matter that his administration was a series of revolving doors of nutters and kooks going into and out of the corridors of power, making up incoherent policy on the run, from nothing but the whim of the Commander in Chief.

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