So should loading an administration with enemies of science for the purpose of enriching an industry that has been relentlessly endangering public health and welfare. So should loading an administration with Wall Streeters to dismantle the protections against the very things they did to derail the entire economy less than 10 years ago. So should staffing a Justice Department that appears intent on undermining the right to vote.

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But that’s not all!

Lest we forget, President Trump promised us he would separate himself from his business interests. As Nixon would say, that statement is now inoperative. Remember that Trump once said, “It’s very possible that I could be the first presidential candidate to run and make money on it.” What public servant thinks this way? This kind. And if you can make money running for president, just think of the possibilities once you actually are president. Trump obviously has thought about it. Unfortunately, not enough voters did.

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Trump is setting up shop in Washington as a First World despot. The evidence is everywhere you look. Nepotism. Cronyism. Endless lies. No transparency. Continuous assault on standards and people who might check or undermine his personal power. Science: eviscerated. Independent media: declared the enemy of the American people. Public servants: tarred as the “administrative state,” a newly invented adversary to be eradicated.

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Leaving what?

Leaving Trump and his network of grasping sycophants running the country not for the public benefit, but for their own power and enrichment. We have a choice. We can stop them now, or not be able to stop them later.