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kleinbl00  ·  16 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Martial Law in South Korea

    Isn't the argument not about Trump and his team being better, but about them being more effective?

The argument is that Trump 1 didn't understand how to work the system properly to accomplish their mayhem which kept them from being truly effective, but now that the heritage foundation has published a playbook and thought about it super-hard everything will be super effective.

Allow me to introduce you to Grover Norquist.

Ole Grover there founded the Americans for Tax Reform. Since 1986, you have to pledge to oppose tax increases in any way shape or form or you get no money from any Republican cause. On May 25, 2001, he famously told NPR "I don't want to abolish government. I simply want to reduce it to the size where I can drag it into the bathroom and drown it in the bathtub."

Let's check in on that, shall we?