Reap what? The second your side gets power again, your politicians will tuck their tails between their legs and let them off with a light scolding.
One of the defining aspects of low-corruption societies is that they don’t have the loyalty based systems and instead have rule of law. But now we see how the loyalty systems come about: it isn’t the politician who makes it; it’s the populace.
Given a single deviation from the low-corruption norm, they demand loyalty test based operation and would rather move towards high-corruption.
A low-corruption society is therefore an unstable equilibrium. The moment a norm deviation occurs, the people desire greater norm deviation.
we're getting pretty darn close; all we need is a subverted election -- if it almost succeeded in 2020 you can be sure it's going to succeed in 2028 -- to close the circle
When people show you who they are, believe them.