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‘This is a coup’: Trump and Musk’s purge is cutting more than costs, say experts
(www.theguardian.com)
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Tbh, I think that dismantling the federal government this aggressively and this scattershot is going to destroy the legitimacy (in the sense of whether people accept the government as legitimate) of the federal government at the same time as it destroys its capacity to govern. It might shamble on for a while like that unless they do something real fucking stupid like try to invade Canada, at which point I think you'll finally see a bunch of states say enough and declare independence as regional nations.
It'll probably be a good thing on the whole, imo. I imagine it'll open the door for quite a few changes that have been prevented by an unresponsive federal government.
That's been their plan this whole time: slowly break the system by defunding important services like USPS and education, etc., and then point to those poorly funded programs and give hot takes about how the government sucks and we need to privatize it.
USPS isn't funded in the first place, the only funding to clawback is the electric vehicle grant.
It's only a possible good thing if we survive it, and that's extremely questionable