A corrupt system is not a space where corruption is permissible, it’s a space where corruption is mandatory. And by corruption I don’t just mean graft. The ability to ignore Trump’s lies comes at the cost of corrupting your ability to perceive reality. As people who have family members in MAGA or Qanon know, people vanish into the upside-down where school shootings are fake, but pizza pedos are real.

Having an “it’s complicated” relationship with reality means being estranged from competence.

Republicans run for office on a platform that government is corrupt and inept, then they win elections and prove it’s true.

But they were all approved by The Heritage Foundation.

…the same organization that put random interns in charge of Iraq’s economy, and that turned out fine right?

Oh right, the red party of Capital is surely “Falling Apart.” I wonder what that actually means to the author?