Pete Rose, Donald Trump and the corruption of literally everything

Ruben Navarrette : Major League Baseball commissioner reinstates Hall of Fame eligibility of 17 deceased former players.

He says the decision throws a revealing light on U.S. politics and class sociology.

He asks: What the story is all about is the potential reinstatement of Pete Rose , baseball's all-time leader in hits, who was disqualified for gambling on games as a player and manager.

Frida Ghitis : The goal of totalitarianism is not to turn all of us into enthusiastic believers, Ghitis says.

She says Hitler believed the German people must never be allowed to “cool off” but on the contrary, they had to be subjected to a perpetual drumbeat.

Ghitis writes: The objective of the totalitarian is to bludgeon us into apathy, resignation and passivity.

She notes that the leaders of our society are laughably easy to compromise and corrupt.