Transparency advocates, however, warn that suspending enforcement could deal a significant blow to global anti-bribery efforts.
“This pause will work to the advantage of unscrupulous business actors around the world who until now feared U.S. criminal pursuits,” Transparency International said in a statement calling on other OECD Anti-Bribery Convention members to increase their enforcement following the U.S. shift in policy.
Not to detract from his general shittiness, but to be fair he’s correct. How to make democracy more resilient to external bad actors is an open and very important question.
He is on the wrong side of this argument though, suggesting any involvement in the result of even a rigged election is undemocratic, and “soviet era like”.
Maybe our descendants will figure it out the next time they implement democracy.