I don’t like Trump’s crypto schemes but, sorry, the correct analogy to Trump’s corruption is not Woke 1.0 which was a society-wide Cultural-Revolution-lite deranging moral panic, but Joe Biden’s presidency where he was essentially wheeled around as a vegetable and the country was governed by people still unknown with the media running cover while the DOJ and administrative state and nat sec were weaponized for censorship and partisan ends to a degree unprecedented since Nixon was forced from power. So along those lines the corruption and malfeasance under Biden dwarfs anything under Trump. I’d also add that if you look at the exploits of Biden’s family the only reason the financial yield was so low was because the Bidens are a bunch of drug addicts and alcoholics and Z-tier incompetents. It had nothing to do with their actual criminal intent. Finally, I’m not sure who on the left is being referred to in terms of doing ‘popularism’ - the DSA candidates getting elected are generally low human capital sociopaths whose primary motivation is resentment towards basic civilizational norms. I’m going to *say it with my full chest* but the Dems and the DSA at this point have no interest in accomplishing anything technocratically and their primary interests are confiscation, generating disorder, and punishing disfavored groups. The sooner reasonable moderates openly acknowledge these basic facts rather than dissembling on behalf of the left, the sooner they can end their humiliations and have some semblance of dignity back.