My new Substack essay examines the #sanewashing of political corruption and how democratic societies tend to normalise transgressions by public officials. When democracies stop viewing corruption as abnormal, political accountability collapses, shattering the foundational mechanics of governance.
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The Sanewashing of Political Corruption: Democracies’ “New Abnormal”
Beyond the breakdown of law lies a deeper social pathology: the collapse of the democratic reflexes that once defined public integrity and political accountability.
