Adam Serwer: “All over the world, highly effective males are going through penalties for his or her actions. Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro was convicted of making an attempt to overthrow the federal government in a January 6–type coup, as was his South Korean counterpart, Yoon Suk Yuol. Marcin Romanowski, the previous deputy justice minister within the right-wing Polish authorities, is in hiding in Hungary, accused of misusing public funds. The previous Prince Andrew—Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor—turned the primary member of the British royal household in a number of centuries to be arrested; he’s been accused of crimes associated to his relationship with the late sex-trafficking financier Jeffrey Epstein.”
“They’re all unlucky to not be American. In any other case they most likely would have gotten away scot-free.”
“A method to take a look at the rise of Donald Trump is as a part of a decades-long backlash among the many American management class to the concept of accountability. Since Richard Nixon was compelled to resign, highly effective folks in each political events have labored assiduously to make sure that their leaders would escape the results of their actions… This isn’t nearly Trump; his impunity is the product of a society that has labored arduous to assist the wealthy and highly effective elude punishment for prison conduct.”
