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I didn't mean leaders, I meant just doing the many jobs necessary to keep society running and in good order. For Trump to even be happening, a multitude of lawmakers, lawyers, journalists, prosecutors, tax collectors, bureaucrats, businesspeople, and voters had to spend decades allowing a deeply vile, criminal, selfish, charmless man commit crime after crime while cultivating his celebrity and allowing society to become so uneducated and malcontent that enough voters preferred a brutish moronic nepo criminal to a woman for president.

Electoral maps had to be ratfucked for decades to allow unpopular right wing platforms to take hold and expand their influence. A director allowed him to bully his way into a Home Alone 2 cameo. And later he staged a coup attempt, high treason by any sane standard, yet he remains unhanged because of people being objectively bad at their jobs. The release of the Epstein files has been legally mandated since September and the DoJ has violated the law in its many failings to do so, protecting potential abusers while doing nothing to protect victims, altering documents and withholding the bulk of the actual files for political purposes, blatantly muddying the waters.

It takes a lot of people who do their job (for a given value of 'their job' if you take my meaning - standing up to intimidation, not staying silent, upholding certain oaths of office) at a painfully substandard level for all of this to be possible. We are living in the "Oops! All Negligence" cinematic universe. That's what I meant.