Even if we’re not being deliberately manipulated, there those we might not want to benefit from our nobler impulses. It’s not as simple as we or the Let’s-Go-Brandonistas might want it to be.
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Better angels vs. Our own oligarchs

American's nobler impulses run up, as always, against the benefit of a few. Oligarchs are not a purely Russian phenomenon.