What Will it Take to Re-build After We get Rid of Trump?

[NJCher]

A Pulitzer Prize winning journalist, Michael Hiltzik, looked into it. A snip is below, but if you read the article, he goes from federal agencies to business to law firms and education.

See end of post for a brief bio on him.

Snip from LA Times:

Scientists warn that federal agencies and research institutions affected by Trump’s systematic dismantling could take a generation or longer to rebuild.

Key agencies such as the CDC have been so damaged that future administrations may need to start completely from scratch.

Economic warning signs are mounting as inflation rises and unemployment climbs to its highest level since the pandemic.

The all-purpose adage offering optimism — and sometimes pessimism — to those confronting a crisis head-on is: “This too shall pass.”

One gets the impression that this is a crutch favored by some major institutions that have capitulated to Donald Trump’s demands — such as universities that have committed to fines and payouts stretching out several years, beyond the end of Trump’s current (and final) term and law firms that have made nebulous commitments to represent Trump’s favored litigants in cases that may not even be brought until after the 2028 elections.

snip

Link: http://archive.today/ZRHOX



Wikipedia excerpt on Hiltzig:

Michael A. Hiltzik (born November 9, 1952) is an American columnist, reporter and author who has written extensively for the Los Angeles Times. In 1999, he won a beat reporting Pulitzer Prize for co-writing a series of articles about corruption in the music industry with Chuck Philips.[1] He won two Gerald Loeb Awards for Distinguished Business and Financial Journalism.[2]

[elleng]

1. A lot.

[lapfog_1]

2. keep a record of every person hired during this mis-administration

Fire them all... and if you can't fire them ( judges for example ) move them to some useless posting.

retract all executive orders.

Re-instate all Biden and Obama EO.

push legislation to undo things like the omnibus big ugly bill. Restart foreign AID. Feed the people of the world. Re-affirm our commitment to NATO and to oppose dictators from either the far right or the far left.

Redo all the tariffs... keep just those for countries that are doing things like dumping below cost items on American industry. Encourage countries to invest in American manufacturing jobs ( skilled work force, technical know how, etc ).

That is all for the first week.

[yourout]

3. Time and money. Lots of both.

[markodochartaigh]

4. After WWII the

US was the only industrial economy standing. We had the reserve currency which we successfully transferred from being backed by precious metals, gold and silver, to being backed by war metals, lead and uranium. We benefited from the tail end of the industrial revolution, as well as the materials revolution, the agricultural revolution, the computer and electronics revolutions, the medical/biological revolution, a military revolution, and a financial revolution.
Never in human history has civilization seen such rapid changes and the US rode the crest of the wave. We squandered much of this opportunity and now have historic wealth inequality and we have endangered our biosphere.
Even if anthropogenic climate change wasn't going to "change everything" we would never be able to go back to what we had. The conditions, politically, environmentally, and scientifically won't allow that incredible, once in a species' timeline convergence to happen again.

Tu ne quaesieris (scire nefas) quem mihi, quem tibi
finem di dederint, Leuconoe, nec Babylonios
temptaris numeros.

Ut melius quicquid erit pati
Seu pluris hiemes seu tribuit Iuppiter ultimam,
quae nunc oppositis debilitat pumicibus mare
Tyrrhenum, sapias, vina liques et spatio brevi
spem longam reseces.

Dum loquimur, fugerit invida
aetas: carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero.

You should not ask – to know is a sin – which end

the gods have given to me, or to you, Leuconoe, nor

should you meddle with Babylonian calculations. How much better to suffer

whatever will be, whether Jupiter gives us more winters, or whether this is our last,

which now weakens the Tyrrhenian sea on the pumice stones

opposing it. Be wise, strain the wine, and cut back long hope

into a small space. While we talk, envious time will

have fled: pluck the day, trusting as little as possible to the future.

[Jirel]

5. Worry about ejecting the feuhrer first.

I love all these discussions about how to deal with the aftermath, when people still are clutching their pearls over issuing harsh statements.

[J_William_Ryan]

6. Trump might not last forever; but some of his damage will.

It could take decades to repair the damage caused by Trump – indeed, some of Trump’s damage will be irreparable.