Sometimes, past isn’t prologue. The party coming into full, unchecked power has been remade. There is a giagantic playbook that tells us clear as day what the plan is—and where something like defunding CPB didn’t actually make the manifesto, the contextual clues aren’t exactly hard to read.
There may be bigger things on the immediate agenda to be carried out by executive orders, but make no mistake that what we’ve seen happen before is wholly irrelevant. We’re in uncharted waters. Anything on the chief toddler’s hit list, or that of his supporting cast, will make it into the budgeting process. Or make it out of the process, as the case may be.
