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The Trump Administration is starting to deliver on the long-standing dream of the conservative intelligentsia—to dismantle the administrative state. Read this thread on how the undermining of the USDA will harm rural communities. It’s just ghoulish.
The person to read on how devastating this will be for ordinary citizens is Michael Lewis. Here's an old thread inspired by a podcast interview he did.
Here's a thread offering a cursory overview of the conservative long game to dismantle the administrative that's evolved from the New Deal to the present.
And here's a thread on the fairly subterranean, legal efforts to accomplish the politically unpopular goal of dismantling the administrative state. Most of the judges appointed by Trump and confirmed by McConnell come from this school of thinking.
And today we just got word of how this is playing out in the intelligence community. Get rid of the independent and experienced voices, replace them with Trump loyalists. The hostile takeover of the US federal government continues apace.
