Anne Applebaum
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And so I started doing it.
And it actually appears on a Johns Hopkins website as well.
The Agora Institute also publishes.
They even created a little graphic so you can track it and click on it.
I mean, I don't know how many people look at it or use it, but I'm hoping like at least historians of the future will be able to say that somebody was paying attention.
And there are really two or three important shifts.
I mean,
One of them is this one that doesn't get attention I just mentioned, which is it's not just that the Trump administration is making money for itself or it's, you know, Trump companies are benefiting from deals with the Saudis or investments in Vietnam.
It's also that this administration is...
either refusing to enforce laws made in the past or is actively preventing new laws from being made.
So laws designed to prevent the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, for example, or laws designed to regulate the cryptocurrency industry so that ordinary people wouldn't be ripped off.
You know, all kinds of regulation that's designed
mostly designed to benefit ordinary Americans and make sure that our system isn't corrupt and that people aren't ripped off by U.S.
or foreign companies, a lot of that is just being taken away.
You know, they're just not enforcing it.
They don't care anymore.
And of course, the bad actors know that.
And so when they see the legal system being taken apart and they know it's a free-for-all, they can just remove money from people's cryptocurrency wallets, which happens more often than you think.
You know, or, you know, or they can violate the law or they can, you know, they can do as they please because they know that nobody's watching them.
And I think that's and that doesn't get a lot of attention because it's not, you know, it's not very exciting news to say that the Trump administration has decided it won't enforce X or Y law.