One of the ominous trends of the past 30 years has been the privatization of many functions of the state. During the Cheney Regency, this process was extended into the military, creating a network of private armies. Blackwater, founded by Betsy DeVos's brother Eric Prince, was the most extreme example of this.
As Josh Marshall points out, one of the underlying stories behind the Trump/Russia scandal and now the allegations of fraud in Alabama is that you have private intelligence firms - freelance CIAs - doing all sorts of ratfucking in our elections and overseas.
After Watergate, there was a necessary fumigating of our politics. If we don't seize the same opportunity at the end of Trumpistan, I'm not sure we can ever become the nation we once were.
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