Over the last few years I've spent a lot of thinking and writing about the disconnect between what was clearly an improving American economy and polls showing Americans not feeling it.
I keep wondering whether how we poll around the economy is incomplete somehow. 1/
Consider this new survey which finds job satisfaction at all time high:
"improved satisfaction across nearly all 26 components—w/gains in non-compensation factors like work-life balance outpacing even those from improved pay and benefits." 2/
The $2b the Saudis put into the pockets of the Trump family is the single biggest act of political corruption in our history, and has sent a big loud signal to bad actors across the world Americans and America are for sale.
Democrats need to develop a big, meaty, serious political reform and anti-corruption agenda as soon as possible, and make it central to our 2024 narrative.
4 reminders:
- Manafort had Putin/Russian intelligence ties
- He softened GOP platform towards arming Ukraine
- Trump welcomed Russian help publicly
- We know Manafort gave Russian intel polling info
Of course, a counter-intelligence investigation was necessary ffs!
Apparently Durham also missed the FBI agent "who oversaw some of the agency’s most secret and sensitive counterintelligence investigations" was just arrested for secretly working for the Russian who oversaw 2016 op against Clinton:
“Manafort’s high-level access and willingness to share information w/individuals closely affiliated with the Russian intelligence services, particularly Kilimnik and associates of Oleg Deripaska, represented a grave counterintelligence threat.”
It's long past time for issues around "information integrity," hybrid war, election interference, disinformation to be come a top tier NATO/G7 agenda item.