In 2018 in Helsinki, when Vladimir Putin utterly humiliated Trump publicly, Trump still had competent Russian advisors to advise him. Today, after years of chasing a manufactured grievance against the Deep State, Trump walks into a solo meeting with his KGB handler having rid himself of any competent advisor.| emptywheel
Neoliberalism has been reshaped as plutocracy. But in the United States, the plutocrats may have over-reached themselves.| the next wave