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Trump’s Mission to Poison America

The story Saagar Enjeti lays out is simple and ugly: America didn’t stumble into a culture of gambling, porn, and drugs. It was built. It was engineered. And it was pushed by people who knew exactly what they were doing and exactly who would pay the price.

Saagar’s argument starts with the timeline. Around 2018, the floodgates opened. Online sports betting went from fringe to mainstream overnight. Porn platforms exploded into billion‑dollar empires. Marijuana legalization turned into a corporate land grab. And every one of these industries targeted the same demographic: young men who were…

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