I really admire American Compass’s dedication to the ability of normal people to flourish. But it’s obvious that this administration—from the obviously corrupt way they wave through harmful mergers, hand out immunity to big agribusiness as they poison rural communities, botch competition with China and undermine our potential anti-hegemonic coalition, expose ranchers to South American competition while refusing to deal with meat processing monopolists, jet around inking trade deals that promote Big Tech without fostering reindustrialization, pump crypto scams, block AI safeguards, and protect the predations of the Epstein class—are anti-social thieves and not populists at all. The writing’s on the wall; everyone is going to need to denounce and fight the increasingly toxic Trump kleptocracy. Will American Compass be a leader, or a laggard?
I really admire American Compass’s dedication to the ability of normal people to flourish. But it’s obvious that this administration—from the obviously corrupt way they wave through harmful mergers, hand out immunity to big agribusiness as they poison rural communities, botch competition with China and undermine our potential anti-hegemonic coalition, expose ranchers to South American competition while refusing to deal with meat processing monopolists, jet around inking trade deals that promote Big Tech without fostering reindustrialization, pump crypto scams, block AI safeguards, and protect the predations of the Epstein class—are anti-social thieves and not populists at all. The writing’s on the wall; everyone is going to need to denounce and fight the increasingly toxic Trump kleptocracy. Will American Compass be a leader, or a laggard?
What about Block firing 40% of workers? Beginning of the Citrini paradigm?