Sunday, October 4, 2020

Trump is the “Chaos Monkey” of democracy

As for order: Trump not only tolerates chaos, he manufactures it. A few years ago, Netflix developed software called Chaos Monkey to intentionally provoke failures in its system so engineers could determine vulnerabilities. Trump is a chaos monkey for our democratic system, and he's exposed countless areas where it's not fully equipped to deal with corruption of the executive branch, executive overreach or a president who openly pines to be an authoritarian. But unlike with Netflix's version, we can't just terminate the program — at least not until Jan. 20.

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