Garrett Graff: You can explain America's constitutional collapse in a single coherent sentence

[BurnDoubt]

16. Compromat is King.

Remember when Rudy was making the rounds of the Sunday Buffet and bragged about his FBI cred, saying he was at the NY branch all the time?
He got the dirt on everybody, and gave it to Der Fuhrer, and Der Fuhrer has the goods on him, too. It’s a tradition that the Director compile dossiers on everybody who is anybody, and most of the irrelevant, too.
This is the stuff that turns Spines into Jelly. This explains the world we’re in, all the way from the top of the ticket to the bottoms of ICE’S bloody boots.
That, and good-old physical intimidation.
None of these things should EVER be “normalized” in a Democracy. Every news story is a tale of the corrosive nature of Secrecy and Domination.
AI… AI… OH!
Poo Tee Weet.