XRP is how the US does a CBDC, while saying there is no CBDC. I honestly don't fully understand what is so surprising about it, because it's been clear from the very beginning that was the product Ripple was selling.

Yes, the Democrats went after it because they lean Statist, while MAGA and the Republicans lean Corporatist. As if that made any difference. It's all part of the same spectrum, just different ratios of the two ingredients.

That's the trick with which they fool you all the time.