Great article from a Canadian in the COVID days, guy is clear thinking on their politics in general. If you don't see politics as the competition of rent-seeking gangs, you are just a schmuck. His point that the only way to avoid becoming a failed state is finding some way to politically integrate the underworld into the elite is the most important part. It's why Mexico and Brazil remain basket cases versus the US which chooses amnesty and looking the other way every single time. Of course in the long run every state that chooses this collapses due to rent-seeking hoods pressing the "bust out" button on the fiscus, but the state is not a fundamentally stable organization.