“Donald Trump is not something new,” Curtis tells me, calling him “the final pantomime product” of the US government, where the powerful are abandoning any pretense of common, inclusive ideals and instead using their positions to settle scores, reward loyalty and hollow out institutions for personal or political gains.
The Guardian · Systems are crumbling – but daily life continues. The dissonance is real
@aral
Yes, that's something I've thought for a while, if it wasn't Trump it'd be someone else. We need to change the system, not just the people at the top.