What we are seeing is a purge—of the administrative state, of the universities, of expertise—that is consistent with events like the Cultural Revolution in China in the 1960s and ’70s, or the dismantling of the tsarist civil service after the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917.
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Religious and cultural practices were banned.
Places of worship were destroyed or converted to secular use.
Clergy were imprisoned or sent to labor camps.
Reagan US thatcher UK. Trump is doing what Reagan&thatcher began. Trump is the inevitable outcome of decades of this by every R&D since Reagan. 99% of people can't see or don't want to see. That trump&musk are the symptom of the cancer of capitalism. So Kill it at the root
MAGAs like to idolize Hungary. But the truth is that they are like 100 times more extreme than Hungary.
They make Hungary seem like paradise.
And Trump tried doing the same thing in 2017, but the system held then.
Michael Lewis wrote an excellent book called The Fifth Risk about it.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/02/career-civil-servant-end/681712/?gift=otEsSHbRYKNfFYMngVFweNYKWIqdzRcwlkKcJIpzU3E
Did see Michael talking about the new one on @stephruhle.bsky.social
https://www.removepaywall.com/api/getArchive?q=https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/11/usda-food-stamps-school-lunch-trump-administration
They all do it.
It’s yet another red flag on a road we do not want to be on.
Reagan US thatcher UK. Trump is doing what Reagan&thatcher began. Trump is the inevitable outcome of decades of this by every R&D since Reagan. 99% of people can't see or don't want to see. That trump&musk are the symptom of the cancer of capitalism. So Kill it at the root