A Virus is Killing Our Democracy, And It’s Not Covid-19

Medical workers treating coronavirus patients in an intensive-care unit at the Cremona hospital in Northern Italy in an image taken from video March 5. Reuters

Like so many of our own citizens, American democracy lies intubated in the ICU, infected by a deadly viral infection, suffocating under the failure of its own institutions. Understanding its origins is critical.

This viral infection did not start in China, this infection started in Russia.

Putin is a master tactician, and he plays the long game.

According to Unable to contain his own greed, Trump has readily accepted this Russian money.