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The Rot at the Top

EL CENTRAL by EL CENTRAL
November 26, 2025
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  • Robert Reich
  • November 26, 2025
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Ten months of this. Enough to make one scream, run stark naked in the streets, mount a revolution.

But we have to play the long game. In that long game, America learns from this catastrophe — and turns those lessons into laws, rules, and norms that prevent this from ever happening again.

Much has been revealed lately, both about Trump and the rot at the top of our system.

Trump’s attempted cover-up of his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein has riveted the nation’s attention to the moral depravity of many rich and powerful men who raped children, with impunity.

Trump’s celebration of the Saudi crown prince who ordered the brutal killing of a Washington Post reporter has shown the moral vacuity of the CEOs who flocked to the White House dinner to honor the prince because they want his investments.

Trump’s blatant threats against corporate media whose journalists ask him hard questions and whose comedians ridicule him — and media executives’ chickenshit, obsequious responses to those threats — are exposing the dangers of giant media corporations controlling our access to the truth.

Trump’s wheeling and dealing with tech company oligarchs are revealing the cozy, incestuous ways wealth and power are concentrating in fewer and fewer hands.

Trump’s acceptance of gifts, bribes, payoffs, kickbacks, and perks from those seeking handouts shows how a demagogue cashes in on his power.

His awards of pardons, government contracts, regulatory exemptions, tax subsidies, and lower tariffs to those who bribe him reveal how an authoritarian builds power through favors.

His uses of criminal investigations, tax audits, regulatory enforcement, withholding of government funds, and vicious public smears exhibit how a neofascist punishes opponents.

None of this is entirely new to American politics, but it has never happened on this scale — or with this much shameless abandon.

Most average working Americans abide by laws and norms. Most are kind and decent.

But there is growing rot at the top of our system. And its stench can no longer be ignored.

It’s the essence of Trump and his regime. It’s also, sadly, the moral squalor of too many rich and powerful Americans.

Playing the long game requires that the rest of us learn from this revolting era — learn why the wealthy and powerful must be constrained and learn how to constrain them.

Learn what integrity requires at the highest reaches of our government, in the c-suites of our corporations, in our universities, law firms, nonprofits, and media.

Learn that the most significant divide in America is not between the left and the right but between the bottom and the top — between the vast majority of Americans without wealth or power, and a tiny minority holding most all of it.

And resolve to prevent such moral rot from ever again taking over our nation.

La podredumbre en la cima

Diez meses de esto. Suficiente para hacer gritar, correr desnudo por las calles, organizar una revolución.

Pero tenemos que apostar a largo plazo. En ese largo plazo, Estados Unidos aprende de esta catástrofe y convierte esas lecciones en leyes, reglas y normas que evitan que esto vuelva a suceder.

Últimamente se ha revelado mucho, tanto sobre Trump como sobre la corrupción en la cúpula de nuestro sistema.

El intento de Trump de encubrir su relación con Jeffrey Epstein ha centrado la atención del país en la depravación moral de muchos hombres ricos y poderosos que violaron a niños con impunidad.

La celebración de Trump del príncipe heredero saudí que ordenó el brutal asesinato de un reportero del Washington Post ha demostrado la inmoralidad de los directores ejecutivos que acudieron en masa a la cena de la Casa Blanca para honrar al príncipe porque quieren sus inversiones.

Las flagrantes amenazas de Trump contra los medios corporativos, cuyos periodistas le plantean preguntas difíciles y cuyos comediantes lo ridiculizan, así como las respuestas cobardes y obsequiosas de los ejecutivos de los medios a dichas amenazas, exponen los peligros de que las grandes corporaciones mediáticas controlen nuestro acceso a la verdad.

Los tejemanejes de Trump con los oligarcas de las empresas tecnológicas revelan las formas acogedoras e incestuosas en que la riqueza y el poder se concentran en cada vez menos manos.

La aceptación por parte de Trump de regalos, sobornos, comisiones ilegales y prebendas de quienes buscan dádivas muestra cómo un demagogo se lucra con su poder.

Sus concesiones de indultos, contratos gubernamentales, exenciones regulatorias, subsidios fiscales y aranceles más bajos a quienes lo sobornan revelan cómo un autoritario construye poder mediante favores.

Su uso de investigaciones criminales, auditorías fiscales, aplicación de regulaciones, retención de fondos gubernamentales y brutales difamaciones públicas demuestran cómo un neofascista castiga a sus oponentes.

Nada de esto es completamente nuevo en la política estadounidense, pero nunca había sucedido a esta escala ni con tanto descaro.

La mayoría de los estadounidenses trabajadores promedio respetan las leyes y las normas. La mayoría son amables y decentes.

Pero hay una creciente podredumbre en la cima de nuestro sistema. Y su hedor ya no puede ignorarse.

Es la esencia de Trump y su régimen. También es, lamentablemente, la miseria moral de demasiados estadounidenses ricos y poderosos.

Jugar a largo plazo requiere que el resto de nosotros aprendamos de esta era repugnante: aprendamos por qué los ricos y poderosos deben ser limitados y cómo limitarlos.

Aprendamos lo que exige la integridad en las altas esferas de nuestro gobierno, en los altos ejecutivos de nuestras corporaciones, en nuestras universidades, bufetes de abogados, organizaciones sin fines de lucro y medios de comunicación.

Aprendan que la división más significativa en Estados Unidos no es entre la izquierda y la derecha, sino entre los de abajo y los de arriba: entre la gran mayoría de estadounidenses sin riqueza ni poder, y una pequeña minoría que lo posee casi todo.

Y decídanse a evitar que esta podredumbre moral vuelva a apoderarse de nuestra nación.

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