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Ah, well, that's America for you, they've always been weirdly okay with criminal politicians. But more broadly, no, it is not a democratic norm that politician
by rsynnott 2y ago
Ah, well, that's America for you, they've always been weirdly okay with criminal politicians.
But more broadly, no, it is not a democratic norm that politicians should be allowed to commit multi-million euro frauds with no consequences.
- quitit 2y agoSeems like this is the true meaning of "american exceptionalism".
- Agingcoder 2y agoIt used to be the case in France too. For a truly incredible version of it see the helicopter affair : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Toubon?wprov=sfti1#Controversial_actions https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Toubon?wprov=sfti1#Con... In many ways, sending high profile politicians to prison or semi-prison ( Sarkozy, now Le Pen ) is new.