Right -- and that is precisely his intended message: To be openly court corruption of this sort, as a way of rejecting the accepted norms of Western democracy.

Right -- and that is precisely his intended message: To be openly court corruption of this sort, as a way of rejecting the accepted norms of Western democracy. In its current effete, collectivist form. "Burn it down, burn it down!", in other words. Until the world is ready to accept his profoundly more enlightened norms -- of evolved, "capitalist" democracy.