Like many people, both here in the US and across the world, I was
shocked and dismayed by the outcome of the US Presidential election. To
be honest, I’m still in such a state of numb disbelief, I’m not sure I’m
in a position to think or write clearly. And I’m not even sure there’s
much point to blogging about corruption. As I said in my post this past
Tuesday (which now feels like a million years ago), the consequences of a
Trump presidency are potentially so dire for such a broad range of
issues–from health care to climate change to national security to
immigration to the preservation of the fundamental ideals of the United
States as an open and tolerant constitutional democracy–that even
thinking about the implications of a Trump presidency for something as
narrow and specific as anticorruption policy seems almost comically
trivial. But blogging about corruption is one of the things I do, and to
hold myself together and try to keep sane, I’m going to take a stab at
writing a bit about the possible impact that President Trump will have
on US anticorruption policy, at home and abroad. I think the impact is
likely to be considerable, and uniformly bad...
Read the full blog post by Matthew Stephenson: https://globalanticorruptionblog.com/2016/11/10/us-anticorruption-policy-in-a-trump-administration-a-cry-of-despair-from-the-heart-of-darkness/
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