Authoritarian Playbook wrote:
1. Cuts funding.
2. Offers to resume funding in exchange for loyalty and direct oversight by party apparatchiks.
3. Promises retribution for any cross words about Dear Leader.
4. Mounts aggressive propaganda campaign about how magnanimous Dear Leader is for restoring the funding.
5. Enjoy your Trump Lunch, driving across the Trump Tollway Bridge, getting a Trump Grant to attend an approved college, sharing all of your breakthroughs with a subsidiary of the Trump Oligarch Consortium, watching your favorite football team playing at the NFL Trump Bowl at Trump Stadium, etc.
Trump Steak, Trump Mattress, Trump Shuttle, Trump University.....
There is a pattern here....
Alan

