Crescendo of Corruption

Seeing the crescendo of corruption reached by Trump's anti-administration it’s possible to look back and view more clearly the roots of our demise in the southern strategy, through which Republicans sold their souls for political victories, initially trusting in the rightness of their absurd doctrines and keeping up a semblance of statesmanship.

Now Republicans compulsively cling to power and wantonly disgrace themselves, believing that the entire physics of accountability has been overturned. It hasn't but it is possible that they have successfully channelled the consequences of their corruption downstream onto innocent citizens of lesser means and generations of future victims.

This is how addiction works. The beasts must be fed no matter what. The economic rout of 2008 was an example, as the dust settled and income and wealth became concentrated even more. The retributive social anger and indecency of the southern contingent of Republicans is now on full view in Jeff Sessions, Scott Pruitt and others.

Sessions routinely advances the thinly rationalized persecutory agenda of the Confederacy against minorities and working people, Pruitt showing the utter decomposition of (his) humanity brought about by the corrosive effects of racism on people's souls, the initial existence of which these loathsome actors begin to call into question.