but there's always been an attempt to kind of hide it to now where it's a kind of open larceny. And that is indicative of a banana republic. And in banana republics, there is no trust. And I think now that you say that, I'm reminded of that tweet that I wrote, because I did say that I think part of the challenge that people have who look at this and may genuinely not think of it as such a big deal, kind of like whatever, Trump is kind of doing this thing. But so what? Look at Biden, look at Hunter Biden. He was on the board of Barisma. What did he know? Biden put him there. I think that what people who haven't lived in low trust societies don't necessarily realize is that when you lose trust, when you lose faith in institutions, and you hand over power to populist demagogues and increasingly rely on figures to lead you, whoever those figures may be, you can't get that back. Like once the institutions are broken, you can't just fix it again. And a great example of that is Argentina. (15/99)
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