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Griftopia: Bubble Machines, Vampire Squids, and the Long Con That Is Breaking America Highlight

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This was news for specialists and experts in the industry, of course (Gheit compared putting Gensler in charge of the CFTC to “making a former legalization advocate the drug czar”), but America is no longer a country that cares about experts. In fact, it hates experts. If you can’t fit a story into the culture-war storyline in ten seconds or less, it dies.

— Matt Taibbi

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