Optimists.
The playbook being executed has been successful in Russia and Hungary, most notably, and in other nations as well.
We aren't even close.

Take the case of USAID.
Trump was supposed to restore all funding.
Nothing has been done.
Trump is now going for an emergency SCOTUS intervention.
He's also positing it's too late, that USAID is dead and can't be revived.

So what do you think the Courts are going to do? Force Trump to restaff and rebuild USAID? Hiow successful would that be?

Best we get ready for Ebola, Bubonic plague, new drug resistant HIV (20 million (check that number) people cut off from the medications they need to keep it under control), not to mention measles, leprosy, and so much more. But the billionaires are going to be even richer than every before.

Lamplighter, yes.
Elucidating, Trump is currently executing what Putin did regarding the press. Removing independence and access to the WH and to Trump himself, doing away with the White House Correspondence that determines who cover the WH and report. Instead Trump is choosing who he will allow to report on him and the WH. The ramifications can't be overstated.

Everyone I have spoken with or worked with at CMS has been wonderful, caring, kind, and helpful. I don't get this demonizing one bit. It takes way too long to be able to speak to someone, way too long on hold - but that has nothing to do with anyone being lazy or not caring. It has to do with not funding it properly in the first place. The very opposite of what is going on now. This is utterly ridiculous.