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Russia’s leverage over Trump’s orbit keeps widening the gap between U.S. interests and MAGA priorities.
Democratic leaders risk missing the moment if they keep tiptoeing around the scale of criminal exposure.
A real accountability structure — not vibes, not messaging — now sits at the center of the democratic project.
Stuart Stevens and Simon Rosenberg (Hopium Chronicles [ [link removed] ]) press into the uncomfortable truth that the corrosion inside Trump’s circle isn’t just a political problem but a structural threat to how the United States exercises power, and the next step is naming that threat in a way that forces institutions to respond. If foreign money and private deals are steering U.S. commitments, then the conversation can no longer orbit around whether norms were violated, but around how the country rebuilds the safeguards that were supposed to make this impossible in the first place. This moment demands a vocabulary that matches the danger, not because language is branding but because the right words can force clarity: a framework that treats coordinated self-enrichment, foreign-state alignment, and the hijacking of national security as a single category of democratic breach requiring an explicit mechanism for repair.
Tune in for a conversation that treats this moment with the seriousness it deserves — and insists the country do the same.

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