If someone suggested a throughline lesson in this week’s plane crash in India and deportation raids in Southern California, you might expect to hear a mind-bending yarn from a new edition of Freakonomics. But the events offer a parable about the Trump era’s trade-offs — and how MAGA’s culture war serves oligarchs’ economic class war.
Before anyone mutters “Trump Derangement Syndrome,” consider a sequence of recent administration decisions.
Last month, the Justice Department announced it is deprioritizing white collar crime enforcement, arguing that the past focus on such prosecutions has come at “too high a cost for businesses and American enterprise.” That same day, Reuters reported that the FBI ordered agents “to devote more time to immigration enforcement and scale back investigating white-collar crime.”
