2024 Election, Politics
The Art of the Grift
Spy columnist Maria Grants writes on America’s complicated relationship with grifting.
Election day is two weeks away, and I’m worried. Despite some genuinely bizarre behavior from Donald Trump, the race remains too close to call. That’s frustrating. What do I see that millions of others are missing?
Maria Grant, a columnist with Spy Community Media’s Maryland Eastern Shore newspapers, addressed grifting this week. As you might guess, Grant sees Donald Trump as a classic grifter. However, the column isn’t just about Donald Trump. Grant discusses the depiction of grifters in films and cites a few real-life examples — people in public office undermining democracy by engaging in grifting.
Grifting, Grant tells us, undermines confidence in our government, weakening democracy.
Maria Grant’s editorial, published on October 22, may be found here.
The Art of the Grift
Grifters, also known as con artists or scammers, are people who attempt to gain the confidence of naïve people and play them for fools long enough to get what they want. In other…
