Trump’s model for America is corrupt, autocratic crony capitalism. Like in Russia.

Steven Strauss
5 min readJan 31, 2020

Russia is corrupt and autocratic. It ranks 138th out of 180 countries for corruption (where a higher ranking means more corrupt) and 149th for freedom of the press (where a higher ranking means less freedom). In Russia, government policies benefit the ruling party’s allies and punish its opponents.

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