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Brent Nyitray's avatar

The other goal of DOGE (which is being studiously ignored by the Party / MSM) is to expose the grift and self-dealing by the Democratic Party and NGOs.

Big donor stands up a NGO -> NGO gets USAID funds -> spends most of the funds on salaries for people employed in advancing Democrat Party goals.

The other goal was to expose how much of the manufactured consensus was simply astroturfed using taxpayer funds. Like the Great Awokening

I think most Trump voters would be delighted to see the NGO self-dealing and Democrat Messaging Machine cut off from taxpayer funds. Anything else is gravy.

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Richard's avatar

One of life's ironies is, as the article demonstrates, the President has quite limited power over the economy but is typically held responsible for any setbacks. One who did was LBJ with the simple expedient of lying to his own economic advisors about his plans for Vietnam. The inflation unleashed and 8 years of flailing by Nixon and Ford left poor Carter holding the bag. He was blamed for the whole thing. Carter got his revenge by setting up the system that led to the subprime meltdown. Inaction by 4 Presidents left Bush 2 holding the bag. To be fair, he deserved some of the blame but he got all of it.

So here we are again. Book has yet to be written on Trump's efforts but if they fail, this article will be Exhibit A in his defense.

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