Yglesias’s quote is about Donald Trump but the issue is more general than that for example here’s Delaney quoting a news report by Matt Egan regarding a banking scandal: ![]() ![]() You already have plenty of money, and your plan is to get even more. Your punishment will probably be light and will certainly not involve anything more than money. If you end up getting caught, the attempted subversion will be construed as a mitigating (it’s a gray area!) rather than aggravating factor. What a wealthy and powerful person faced with a legal impediment to moneymaking is supposed to do is work with a lawyer to devise clever means of subverting the purpose of the law. ![]() Joseph Delaney quotes Matthew Yglesias writing this:īut it is entirely emblematic of America’s post-Reagan treatment of business regulation.
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