its kinda wild how easily this administration is exposing the flaws in so many institutions and the separation of powers, a bedrock of American self understanding, as a complete myth.
like really everything was always just a "gentleman's agreement" not to fire everyone who disagrees with you, an agreement not to have any opposition threatened with extrajudicial arrest and incarceration, etc.
I shed no tears for USAID, but the raiding of classified personnel files by the richest man on the planet, an unconfirmed appointee and unlikeable Nazi weirdo, and his flock of teenage sycophants, seems like some kind of a move that should have triggered a failsafe to at least protect NatSec assets from extortion and embarassing the apparatus.
