Bro, it isn't 1975, it's 2025. The president has immunity like some South American dictator. His agents will be pardoned as long as they stay in favor.
The civil servant should collect his pay as long as possible and do as little as possible.
People kept tossing around the term "banana republic" over on other websites. Wasn't sure what it really meant other than plantations, so I looked it up the other day to see what actually qualified. Kind of surreal how many boxes America seems to check lately.
Not quite "oligarchy that abets and supports, for kickbacks, the exploitation of large-scale plantation agriculture." Yet quite a few of the others.
- stratified social classes; impoverished working class [1]; ruling class plutocracy, composed of the business, political, and military elites; economy of state capitalism operated for the exclusive profit of the ruling class; collusion between the state and favored monopolies; profit is private property, while debts are the responsibility of the public treasury.
Maybe it's cynicism like noted in other commments, yet the linked chart from the NYT would say "it wasn't always this way" and its not my imagination that the situation has changed over the last 40 years.
So that when this gets litigated, everyone who broke the law is convicted.