From Jared Kushner to Mike Collins, the Mar A Lago Mafia has taken American corruption to spectacular new heights. But corruption in America runs a lot deeper than Donald Trump. American politics is coin operated. Money goes in, favors come out. Spectacular wealth buys an ever greater share of power over our national affairs. While the mere citizen is treated with contempt, cynicism sets in amidst a politics of broken promises, unmoored from fear, fixed moral principles, and incapable of inspiration or great national achievement. (16:17–16:24)
CLAIM
Asserts that American politics operates on a system where money influences political favors.
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