****$$$$$NYTimes.com: It May Not Be Brainwashing, but It’s Not Democracy, Either

It May Not Be Brainwashing, but It’s Not Democracy, Either

How the federal government became “an outdated software system that must be replaced.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/18/opinion/andreessen-musk-trump-silicon-valley.html?smid=em-share

********** $$$$$$$$$$I Should Have Seen This Coming
Trumpism has replaced conservatism’s core values with just one: the raw pursuit of power. @nytdavidbrooks on how the conservative movement dies: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2025/05/trumpism-maga-populism-power-pursuit/682116/?gift=yGKGqaI9BMfIDuch_TrGYeDxKseefM40bhX28If37LE&utm_source=email&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=social “In the long term, Trumpism is doomed. Power without prudence and humility invariably fails. Nations, like people, change not when times are good but in response to pain. At a moment when Trumpism […]
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