"But replacing it with a junta of unaccountable elites—the Putin model—is not an improvement."
The Putinization of America
Heck, Dr Z in the UTEP Poli Sci classes was talking about total privatizing of American back before the Berlin Wall came down. He didn't say he was for it or against it, he was just calling it like it is by the GOP play book.
Trump did not start this, but he is going to finish it, his way, and that's what the GOP was
not hoping or expecting. As Dick "Darth Vader" Cheney stated a few years back and watched in horror. "We created a monster", is what I think he said.