(February 13, 2025 at 12:08 am)Belacqua Wrote: It's very good news to see that Trump is shutting down the National Endowment for Democracy. This ironically-named institution has done more to obstruct and pervert free and fair elections than just about any other part of the US government.
I mean, it's not like everything is fine now. The anti-democracy agents can take their High Professional Standards over to another office. The CIA is still open, for example.
But any monkey wrench thrown into the workings of tyranny is a good thing.
Trump is still doing evil things, of course. His continuation and extension of Biden's genocidal pro-Israel policy is still enough to get him sent to hell, if there were a hell. (During the "ceasefire," Israel has killed hundreds in Gaza, the West Bank, and Lebanon. Trump's response is to send them bigger bombs.)
When he does a good thing, though, we are allowed to say it's good.
This is simply further evidence of Trump's stupidity. If he really understood what the NED was doing, he would have increased its funding, not decreased it. As a promoter of fascism and an opponent of free and fair elections, one would have expected Trump to cradle the NED to his fat orange bosom.
Boru
‘I can’t be having with this.’ - Esmeralda Weatherwax
