self-interested

But I think what he’s really after is something more specifically self-interested.

Within this conspiratorial mentality, any liberal resistance to Trumpism is not a form of participation in the political system—it’s evidence of campaigns strategized by self-interested elites.

The incoming president will have all three ostensibly coequal branches of the federal government in his pocket, staffed with political and personal loyalists who have essentially forsaken their institutional responsibilities for checking and balancing one another in order to secure self-interested presidential favor.

We forget that they aren’t merely self-interested careerists willing to whisper home truths while they trumpet lies; they aren’t just willing to sacrifice themselves to the collective-action defense holding that if bravery were necessary, someone else ought to be brave.

California as a Dickensian, self-interested world of excess and disorder?