It's all so inexplicable until you accept that, like multinational corporations, politicians have moved on from duty and national interest to pursue increasing profits and malicious actors have used that to manipulate politics for their own enrichment and power.
What Trump has done, how he's betrayed this country time and time again, makes so much more sense when you view politics as a business transaction instead of a call to help people. And it's that mindset that has allowed actors like Russia to gain so much control.
It's globalism's logical endpoint, an eating of its own tail. The entire system is predicated on people worrying about their own personal interest and discarding ideas like empathy, humanity, and duty. This was always going to happen and can only be stopped if we rewire the thing
