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Claiming the mantle of "small government" was simply an exercise in marketing to relax regulation meant to prevent bribery and corruption. In practice, the curr
by kommunicate 3mo ago
Claiming the mantle of "small government" was simply an exercise in marketing to relax regulation meant to prevent bribery and corruption. In practice, the current slate of government officials believes in absolute control of whatever they want whenever they want.
It's a mirror case of the supposed "free speech absolutists" who immediately turned around and silenced, sued, fired or jailed once granted the power to do so.
- groundzeros2015 3mo agoWhen has Trump or his administration said they were about small government? Are you confusing them with Paul Ryan?
- jrajav 3mo agoThis was certainly the rallying cry behind DOGE and the general push to rip the entrails out of many federal agencies. Combatting "waste" and "inefficiency," with strong implications that most of what those agencies do is pointless government meddling. Whether he's actually driving towards small government with that or anything else - in the good-faith spirit of that policy - that's definitely up for debate.
- groundzeros2015 3mo agoNo I’m asking if ever said he was for small government. From 2015 Trump has positioned himself as opposed to that style of republicanism. He offered a different playbook and the base followed. What is happening is 40-50+ year olds haven’t updated their map of reality and continue to use talking political points from when they were 25. One of the critiques of small government is its valueless. Instead of having to argue for or against positions you just say you don’t like it because it’s out of scope. Well now the inverse thing is happening in this thread. People are just saying he’s in violation of a small government principle he never espoused.