Ruth Ben-Ghiat

And he's also been collecting information on people since he was a businessman, like from the 80s.

That's what he does.

And his mentors were Roy Cohn and Roger Stone, and it's their version of Compromat.

Okay.

So that is going on.

So these are people who have been collaborators in his lawlessness.

And so when Hegseth went to Quantico and all those faces, those stony faces weathered with experience of all our US commanders with so many years of professionalism, they sat there

And Hegseth said that we are not going to abide by these old rules of engagement.

And then Stephen Miller went to law enforcement and said, you know, your hands are untied now.

So it's a liberation from any kind of humanitarian or ethical rules.

So I call this moral deregulation.

So there's economic deregulation, which is going on.

So all companies and corporations and big capital, they don't have to, you know, they can relax their protections of the workforce.

They can plunder the environment.

But moral deregulation, Trump is like the Pied Piper of this.

Everyone must be their worst self so that you don't have to.

This is what he meant when he said, I could shoot someone and my followers will love me for it.

that that the they could be biblical they could be ethical secular the injunctions against cheating people harming people killing innocent fishermen on boats whatever it is they you don't have to worry about those things anymore you can even reward and pardon people who stormed the capital

who were violent, who attacked police officers.

There's no bottom.