‘Recipe for Corruption’: Trump’s ‘Populism’ Exposed as He Stocks Cabinet with Billionaires

Dec 7, 2024 | Donald Trump is building the wealthiest cabinet in history. MSNBC’s Katie Phang reports on the unprecedented influence billionaires now have in American politics and is joined by Vanity Fair’s Molly Jong Fast and The New York Times’ Teddy Schleifer.

Western politics has become so corrupt that it is hard to see how it will be able to survive long-term. Moreover, do we really want it to survive? All I read about these days is corruption, total and absolute corruption. And it is vomit-inducing. There no longer appears to be any common sense in Western politics. It seems to me that the more secular Western politics has become, the more corrupt it has become. – © Mark Alexander