“Most Americans will never be directly, or even remotely, affected by the additional suffering and death that will come as a result of 86 percent of US AID awards getting the axe. Nor will many residents of Massachusetts, other than a small number of crime victims, find their lives altered by the temporary postponement of criminal prosecutions, even with the new court-ordered release of a trickle of perpetrators held on bail.
The truth is, a lot of what our governments spend money on is unknown to most of the participants in those governments. That’s especially true in this modern age of government bureaucracy, and that makes the Trump/MAGA/Steve Bannon form of populism an easy sell”
https://goodpoliticsbadpolitics.substack.com/p/government-does-that