Exactly- California has to negotiate with every landowner, government agency, business, etc. to build a railroad. China doesn’t have to deal with that. If they want to tear down a building, they just do it without caring much about the person they are taking it from. Authoritarianism is really good at doing big things really fast.

No no, didn’t you hear? His relationship with Epstein was purely business. That’s why there are Trump branded condoms in the photo dump, it was purely a business thing.