Being a “rich jerk” means never having to pay the bill, especially when it is astronomical.
Someone else always gets stuck with the check.
A creep can bring a foreign worker to the U.S., sponsor them, even marry them, and then loudly insist immigrants are stealing American jobs.
Nothing stops a creepy weirdo from acting in self-interest.
Deluded followers cheer anyway, eager for a scapegoat, while wealthy friends shrug at absurd contradictions, so long as the ledger shows profit and they aren’t the stuck writing the check for losses.
The real cost is paid by vulnerable people and everyone else—whose labor is and commodified and rights eroded—with the erosion of civic trust and unaccountable hypocrisy a neat side-benefit.
