A friend posted this elsewhere and I got permission to copy-and-paste. It's a description of Trumpian rule.
So ... first we cancel all the spending, then we ask them to tell us what spending we just stopped? Yeah, that's how to run a business.
This is what running the government like a business looks like. A business can try dozens of products. As long as one or two are successful they come out ahead.
But with government programs everything is supposed to work. Every failed program is people suffering.
As far as crashing the economy, that has always sounded like the liberal version of "libs want to destroy America!" But I recently had a realization about Trump.
Maybe this is old news, but I never thought of it this way before. He styles himself as a businessman, but is actually a vulture capitalist. He uses other people's money to invest in everything and anything he can put his name on and doesn't care what fails as long as he gets the occasional success and it lets him keep moving on to the next thing.
For investment firms, they pretty openly say this is their model, and even have theory to support why it's good: Darwinian capitalism. But he gets out in front as the cheerleader for each new venture, and is immune to the stink of each failure because he's working with other vultures.
Some implications:
- He doesn't believe there's any project or program that can't be allowed to fail.
- He will pit programs against each other and intentionally cause some to be ended.
- Services are a cost center. So end all services. Only profits matter. (Like from tariffs. /s)
- Extracting value from current assets before moving on is the point.
So yeah, crashing the economy so you can pick the bones is exactly what "running it like a business" looks like, when your model is to extract all the value before dumping it.
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