Crash Course: From Donald Trump to George Santos, fraud cases expose the gullibility of rich conservatives

Their victims were bankers, tech bros, and GOP donors — what they have in common is giant egos fit for manipulation [View in browser](~/AASU4wA~/RgRnClbDP0REaHR0cHM6Ly9saW5rLndoZXJlYnkudXMvcDViaGFkdHdhMy8_bGhfYWlkPTM1NDM5NTImbGhfY2lkPWUzbGdjZ252OWdXA3NwY0IKZSDH0SdlI149_lIbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODVAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAo) Your daily update from [Salon](~/AASU4wA~/RgRnClbDP0RoaHR0cHM6Ly9saW5rLndoZXJlYnkudXMvN3pjMTdjc2h0YS8_bGhfYWlkPTM1NDM5NTImbGhfY2lkPWUzbGdjZ252OWcmbGhfZW09dHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODUlNDBnbWFpbC5jb21XA3NwY0IKZSDH0SdlI149_lIbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODVAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAo). From Donald Trump to George Santos, fraud cases expose the gullibility of rich conservatives From Amanda Marcotte: It's fun watching such bad guys face the music, but there is one thing all these cases are lacking, if one craves a satisfying tale of crime and punishment: Sympathetic victims. Trump's schemes mostly involved swindling banks and insurance companies. Santos allegedly cheated and outright stole from Republican donors. And Bankman-Fried's empire was built on the backs of the kinds of tech bros who, when they're not gushing about the glories of cryptocurrency, are arguing that Elon Musk is a super genius. Different, if overlapping, victim pools, but they mostly have two things in common: They tend to embrace reactionary politics and they are extremely hard to feel sorry for. [Read more](~/AASU4wA~/RgRnClbDP0RoaHR0cHM6Ly9saW5rLndoZXJlYnkudXMvYWNhODZheW5qaC8_bGhfYWlkPTM1NDM5NTImbGhfY2lkPWUzbGdjZ252OWcmbGhfZW09dHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODUlNDBnbWFpbC5jb21XA3NwY0IKZSDH0SdlI149_lIbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODVAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAo). "Deprogramming" the Trump cult: Is it too late to "humanize those who worship at the altar of MAGA"? Clinton’s claim that many of Trump’s followers were “human deplorables” was also widely viewed as being more evidence of how “elitist” and out of touch people like her (meaning the Democratic Party and “liberals”) were from “real” members of the (white) working class. The Democratic Party consultant class concluded that Hillary’s disrespect and “elitism” led to a refusal to understand the reasonable grievances of the so-called white working class and blamed that as the reason that they lost that prized group of voters — again. In an attempt to better understand Hillary Clinton’s warnings about the Trump MAGA cult, her recent suggestions about deprogramming its members, and what potentially comes next, we asked a range of experts for their insights and reactions. 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