Subject: backsliding
giving some color from shrewdm macroboard , via mungofitch link, is a rather remarkable graph on america's trajectory.
https://flo.uri.sh/visualisati...

it still baffles me how many post all over the finweb something along the lines of '...this is an investing site and does not need politics...'
the very concept that this cannot have an economic impact seems to be unreachable within whatever circle-of-competence participants believe themselves to have.

podcast below compares institutional degradation to known autocratic regimes, coup or repeated, but also how some of the gop playbook runs at even higher (graphed above) rates. (fear of running out of time?) :

https://podcasts.musixmatch.co...