(Destroying the government, smaller government, is neoliberalism. Trump is a neoliberal globalist who hates our system of democracy. Our system of government.)
from Salon
First things first: Mainstream media reports that Donald Trump has “backed away” or “scrapped” plans to destroy the Federal Emergency Management Agency are greatly exaggerated. Trump is just doing what he always does when faced with intense public scrutiny of his unpopular positions: Lying. As usual, he will go right back to doing the bad thing as soon as the news cycle moves on to something else. Right now, the aftermath of the tragic floods in Texas is dominating the news, so Trump will pretend he has no desire to end the federal agency doing the heroic work of helping people in the state recover and regroup.
The misleading Washington Post headline from Friday, which claimed Trump “moves away” from abolishing FEMA was immediately undercut by the actual reporting, which revealed the White House is using weasel words like “rebranding” and “reorganizing” to conceal that the goal of destroying the agency has not changed. Observing that Trump “has dialed up and down his aversion to the agency, depending on the occasion,” the reporters noted that White House spokespeople continued to insist that the agency is part of “a bloated bureaucracy” and talked about how it’s the job of states to deal with natural disasters, not the federal government. Tricia McLaughlin, assistant secretary of homeland security, admitted out loud to the Post that, under Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, “FEMA, as it is today, will no longer exist.”...
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