https://www.rawstory.com/musk-trump-2671092992/
«“My heart is with the people out on the street outside USAID, but my head tells me: ‘Man, Trump will be well satisfied to have this fight,’” former Obama adviser David Axelrod told Politico. “When you talk about cuts, the first thing people say is: Cut foreign aid.”
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MAGA world, meanwhile, is thrilled to see Democratic lawmakers outraged over the foreign aid issue, Politico wrote in their report, which noted that many in Trump’s orbit believe them to be “wasting political capital defending an agency that they believe the public doesn’t give a rip about. Musk himself spent the following 24 hours posting videos of Democrats protesting the move.”»
In addition to the 51% of the American people who couldn’t care less about brown people suffering in parts of the world they never heard of, I believe there’s a chunk of folks on the left who are focused exclusively on domestic issues.
And I wonder if we’ll ever know how many people who were super-concerned about Gaza just couldn’t bring themselves to vote for Harris.
[Edit: of course, three days from now, at the pace we’re going, USAID will be a distant blip in the rear-view mirror and nobody (other than those directly affected) will remember the rage other than the lawyers involved.]