"Musk and Trump’s focus on fraud is nothing new. Fraud has always served as a powerful political trope, one that provides a rationale for cutting government. Accusations of fraud were used to discredit Black elected officials during Reconstruction. Ronald Reagan’s Welfare Queen was an especially effective trope directed against poverty-based policies."
~ Pamela Herd and Don Moynihan
#Musk #Trump #FederalGovernment #fraud #firings #workers #billionaires
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Musk’s Fraudulent Fraud Squad
A tired trope gets a new lease of lifePamela Herd (Can We Still Govern?)
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William Lindsey
in reply to William Lindsey • • •"A recent poll suggests that 70% of Americans believe government expenditures are filled with waste, fraud, and inefficiency....
The GOP is now broadly using the fraud trope to justify cutting any popular program. Medicaid is up next."
#Musk #Trump #FederalGovernment #fraud #firings #workers #billionaires #EconomicElites #TaxCuts #Medicaid
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William Lindsey
in reply to William Lindsey • • •"How does Elon Musk use the word 'fraud' to dismantle the US federal government?
The term is not as an attempt to describe the world, but to change it. It is a political tool, used by a politician to justify a political action: regime change to oligarchy."
~ Timothy Snyder
#Musk #Trump #FederalGovernment #fraud #firings #workers #billionaires #EconomicElites #TaxCuts #Medicaid
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The "Fraud" Fraud
Timothy Snyder (Thinking about...)William Lindsey
in reply to William Lindsey • • •"Musk's 'fraud' rhetoric is presented as an anti-politics, as something fresh and exciting. But it is in fact a politics, a very old sort, the politics of oligarchy. As he himself has made clear himself, Musk is a politician with a program. It is to disable the rule of law, leaving no barriers to his oligarchical power. In this scheme, the only parts of government meant to function are the ones used to silence people who point out this obvious truth."
#Musk #Trump #fraud #LawandOrder
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