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duxup ◴[] No.43581973[source]
It feels like every pick of this administration is just someone who has a motivation for corruption.
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tw04 ◴[] No.43583968[source]
Because it is. Trump is hoping to surround himself with so much corruption that he insulates himself from it. He wants it normalized so people just become numb to it, as with every other messed up thing he does.
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1. nonrandomstring ◴[] No.43584380[source]
> wants it nnormalized

A psychological device of "blutkit" (blood cement). For example; young Nazi SS officers were recruited via a ritual attrocity like participation in a massacre. After that "we're all in this together" sealed loyalty through a mix of guilt and fear.

The race is on for the Trump administration to elicit the most unforgivable and insane actions in order to sinter those participants into a "death pact".

EDIT: spotted recently posted [0] (Also of course C.R Browning's Ordinary Men [1]) both underline the point that you don't need to recruit intrinsically corrupted people - you can make them,

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43583425

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_R._Browning