“That Makes Me Corrupt”

There is a lot to talk about since we last spoke. The US Air Force establishing air superiority over latex balloons. The special counsel’s subpoena of Mike Pence. The wanton hypocrisy of Ron DeSantis when it comes to firearms. The inability of the American people to recognize when an administration is accomplishing significant things on its behalf. George Santos cheating the Amish out of puppies. The death of the great Burt Bacharach. The horrific loss of life in Turkey and Syria. A chill Joe Biden making the GOP look like the clowns they are. An excellent Super Bowl. The ongoing fallout from the brutal murder of Tyre Nichols.

But this week I’d like to talk about a story that is getting precious little press, perhaps because it’s about a kind of criminality to which we’ve become sadly inured, and perhaps because its protagonist is a Florida retiree increasingly irrelevant to the national conversation.

Except that he still commands an army of millions of fanatic followers, and would like to install himself as autocrat-in-chief, again.

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We all know that behind everything Donald Trump does there is always always always one motive: to make money.

One might argue that that motive is a subset of a deeper one, which is to feed his gargantuan ego and assuage a lifelong…