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Author is an FT contributing editor, Liberal Strategies Center, Sofia and IWM Vienna Fellow

This is an old debate: What is the power that is polluted, or the fear of losing it? Whatever the correct answer, it is clear that something significant is happening in the United States today.

In the last two weeks, media has been flooded with the story of President Donald Trump’s personal prosperity. According to the report, the Trump family and their business partners have collected $ 320 million from the new cryptocurrency, dealing with a few billion dollars worth of real estate, and above all, Trump welcomed the Qatar’s US government as a gift to a luxury jet.

Forbes estimated that Trump’s net value increased by $ 1.2 billion from March 2021 to March 2021.

This extraordinary situation raises three key questions. First, why is Trump even pretending to follow the script by making a beautiful wall between government offices and private businesses? Second, why is the Trump family not move the public by conflicts of wealth and interest? And third, how long can its tolerance last?

President’s son Donald Trump Jr. answered the first question directly. Speaking at a Business Forum in Qatar, he expressed the opinion of the Trump family that “whatever they would hurt you”, so the game is lost in the game. He has a word.

The consequences of the past decade of anti -corruption anger have become almost impossible to believe that looking for energy is not to be rich. The main difference here is like Trump, who do not hide the conflicts of their interests and the hypocrites who try to get their cover. The story of Hunter Biden is a reminder that the president’s son tried to get his business contracts to cover their own than themselves.

Trump has also benefited from the size of his profit. For ordinary citizens, the amount of money a hundred times or more is almost understandable than their annual income. The public does not think in billion, so Trump’s contracts are more or less meaningless to them.

Second question – Why the public is seamless? – Particularly painful for many. Paul Rosenzwig, a senior adviser to the President’s Bill Clinton’s investigation in the sixties, advised, “Either ordinary people never care about it,” suggested that the senior adviser to the President of Kenneth Star Bill Clinton in the 9th decade, or “the public does not care about it.” In his view, anti -corruption anger “always was an image of elite imagination”.

It’s more than that. ICally, in many countries, the issues of monarchy endured royal corruption because it is transparent; The Lavish lifestyle of Royals is constantly on public display.

In the nineteenth century it was known that the monarchy was a form of a strong government because people realized it. Democracy is seen the same way today. Public busyness with corruption occurs when democracy stops burdening – when people no longer know who is deciding. “Who really decides?” Questions that distinguish modern democracy. Are the leaders following the desires of voters or their donors? The ruler of those who were elected or anonymous bureaucrats.

In the moment of growing uncertainty and disbelief, your hopes are easier to keep in a charismatic person than the complex institutional machines of modern democracy. The growing appeal of personalized energy is the direct result of how people do their democracy work.

“Who decides?” A question that you don’t need to worry in Trump’s White House. He decided and as a result, he lost some danger of his family’s prosperity while he was in the office. Trump can be one of the most stigmatized of all American presidents, but he is the most transparent.

Of these, the prudent of the patriotic governance system – the attraction of state management as a family business. As Trump realizes that personal power is weakened by privacy and if it is driven, it is accused of corruption but also for hypocrisy.

His administration is hell for the conspiracy theorists because everything is on the surface. The current wave of liberals is a rebellion against the dual quality of the dual. In a society governed by disbelief, Senic is the only credible. In the ideal version of it, modern democracy promises that a political leader will treat his own children as others. However, for those who vote for new Potentates it is a “big lie”.

As a answer to the third question – how long the public tolerance for Trump’s “beautiful” deals can last – it is still seen. But one thing is clear: If most of our citizens finally become against this administration, their screams of war may be “hypocrisy”.