Trump Isn't Going To Help States Except By Cutting Regulations. You Win, Grover.
Trump Isn't Going To Help States Except By Cutting Regulations. You Win, Grover.
"There's a quote that I keep hearing on and off the record, that this is a crisis that's going to be locally managed, state run and federally supported," Joe Scarborough said.
By Susie Madrak at Crooks and Liars
https://crooksandliars.com/2020/03/trump-isnt-going-help-states-except
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"Instead, what you're hearing time and again, not only on the record from the president but off the record from top White House officials, is that this is up to the 50 governors. This is up to the free market, the free enterprise. And what we're going to do, there's a quote that I keep hearing on and off the record that this is a crisis that's going to be locally managed, state run and federally supported.
"And this federal government, led by Donald Trump, believes that it can only be federally supported by being there and possibly assisting governors. But also by cutting regulations. That seems right now to be the extent of it."
There it is. As those of you following at home have already figured out, the small-government right wing is running the country, not Trump. Donald Trump has never had any philosophy other than self-interest, and he's obviously not interested in learning how to govern. Everything that comes out of his office is written by assorted special interests, with a heavy helping of Koch sauce.
His animal instincts are sharp enough to know how unpopular this will be in a time of crisis, but the big-money right wing make up the only real political support he has left. And if he doesn't get reelected, he goes to prison. He knows that.
So the deliberate refusal of the federal government to do something as basic as supplying surgical masks is Grover Norquist's ultimate dream, and millions of Americans hit by this virus will pay the price for libertarian bullshit.
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