Now, on a quiet Presidents' Day in the federal courts, we thought we'd offer something -- as to policies that might actually matter, in the time of Trumpian Max-Chaos -- please do go read EmptyWheel.
She is exceptionally well-informed -- sharp-witted, analytical -- and a literal U of Michigan doctorate of US policy. Here is her morning take-down of the eyeliner wearing creepy putz who was elected as the Veep in the Tangerine 2.0 dumb show (Vance):
. . .[The US Department of State, in the person of Marco Rubio] doesn’t want employees telling the press that life-saving grants haven’t been resumed, because Marco Rubio doesn’t want to confess to Republicans that he failed to deliver what he promised them.
Whether intentional at USAID or the inevitable outcome of arbitrary ignorance, the effect is the same.
It’s not just that the DOGE/2025 attack on government has destroyed critical expertise. But absent that expertise, Trump’s minions are finding it difficult to reverse the ill effects of their initial assault, because the initial damage they do to both systems and expertise makes it far harder to reverse their initial failures.
Last July, JD Vance envisioned this process as "a de-Ba’athification" -- which he imagined was targeted at a caricature of liberal culture, but which in reality targeted the civil service. Someone who served in Iraq really did set out to recreate the same insanely stupid policy decision that made Iraq a decade-long clusterf#ck — he really did set out to launch that same kind of attack on his own government.
We’ve seen this movie before. It was, perhaps, America's biggest failure ever. . . .
Spot on. Flawless. Onward, on Presidents' Day 2025. [He is not mine.]
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