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DogMan says
The Trump administration has been on a mission to shrink the government and its regulatory apparatus,
Actually, tRump is using tariffs to try to directly control investments and the economy. It's a very heavy-handed form of regulation. And remember when tRump had the treasury buy 10% of Intel corporation? That's pure socialism.
As for "shrinking" government, this year tRump added another $1 trillion to the deficit faster than at any time since Covid. His tariffs and his DOGE cuts certainly haven't shrunk spending.
Inseparable from fascism is racism and nativism — meaning opposition to immigrants.
It means a lot more than that, but let's just take your figure of merit and look at Biden's numbers:
The Biden administration saw 2.7 million naturalizations in FY 2021-2023 and 818,500 in FY 2024
Also, Reagan naturalized 3 million all at once with his 1986 amnesty.
If Trump were running a fascist, nativist, racist immigration policy, he would probably...
Facts please, not speculation.
Examples of Racism in 2025
Meanwhile, the tRump admin and its racist allies are busily suppressing the real history of structural racism and Black progress at the same time that the new Trump regime is preparing to copy from that history directly — particularly its most violent chapters: Slavery, post-Reconstruction and racial segregation of the Jim Crow era, the Tulsa Massacre of 1921, voter suppression, redlining, and police killings of Black Americans.
tRump issued executive orders calling for a review of museums and federal agencies to remove "improper ideology" and content that "inappropriately disparage[s] Americans past or living". One directive from the Interior Secretary ordered the removal of exhibits and materials that emphasize slavery and racial injustice by a specific date.
Due to tRump's racist orders to our National Park Service, dozens of NPS webpages were edited to soften descriptions of slavery and racial injustice. Examples include removing a prominent photo of Harriet Tubman from the Underground Railroad page (later restored due to outcry) and changing "enslaved African Americans" to "enslaved workers".
tRump has been attacking the Smithsonian Institution, particularly the National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC), has been a key target of the administration, which accused it of promoting "anti-American propaganda" and an "out of control" emphasis on the negatives of slavery. An executive order specifically tasked officials with removing "improper ideology" from the institution.
In the Dept of Defense, there have been reports of the removal of thousands of pages and images honoring contributions of people of color from Defense Department websites, as well as efforts to change the names of naval ships honoring Black leaders.
