He's forcing us to buy him his own little radical extremists paramilitary. That's what this is.
This slush fund helps explain the political economy of MAGA. It could serve as coalition management: Payments to insurrectionists persuade his coalition that his corruption is good for them, as they get a cut of the spoils. 5/
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