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Trump’s pitiful pivot to Putin has awakened two sleeping giants—Republican opposition and European unity.

Today on TAP: The Trump-Musk proposed sovereign wealth fund fits the pattern—dictatorship as an opportunity for personal enrichment.

Most fascist dictators have been more about ideology and absolute power than about personal wealth. Trump and his crony Musk are at least as interested in personal enrichment as they are in destroying the deep state or the rule of law.

Musk got the only thing that he wanted. Does Trump realize it?

Today on TAP: Why does the supposed advocate for the elderly steer them to the industry’s worst insurer?

The TV doctor’s scams and fake cures are the least of what makes him so dangerous as Trump’s appointee to head Medicare and Medicaid. During the campaign, Trump and his surrogates went out of their way to claim that they had no plans to cut Medicare.

More Trump screwball nominations are going down, and he belatedly agrees to let the FBI vet nominees—meaning that still more will fall.

The TV doctor’s scams and fake cures are the least of what makes him so dangerous as Trump’s appointee to head Medicare and Medicaid.

Both the circumstances and tactics will necessarily be different from the anti-Trump resistance of 2017, and there is little room for error.

This year’s prize went to three institutionalist critics of neoliberalism. The award is overdue.