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[quote=Anonymous]Real goals are -

He finished appointing a Cabinet that is 85 percent white — only three of 20 Cabinet-level positions will be held by racial minorities, none by a Latino — and nearly all male.

He eliminated a scheduled cut in the rate that low-income homeowners pay for the housing insurance program. This means some people with low incomes will have to pay hundreds of dollars more a year than they would have otherwise.

He drafted an order that allows the reopening of secret “black site” prisons where torture had occurred. The order also allows for a re-examination of aggressive interrogation techniques such as waterboarding.

He signed an executive order undermining Obamacare that even a health-care consultant who has been a critic of the law told The Post would be a “bomb,” signaling a “disorderly transition” rather than an “orderly transition.”

His administration froze all EPA grants and contracts, and it ordered the EPA to take down its climate-change Web page, thereby removing links to data on global warming. This followed an immediate move to delete from the White House website information about climate change and gay and lesbian issues.

His White House declared that he would not honor his pledge to release his income-tax returns — ever, apparently — and his Cabinet nominees retreated from Trump’s promises not to cut entitlement programs such as Medicare and Social Security.

Many other actions have also been overshadowed by Trump’s histrionics — the freeze on federal hiring, abandoning the Trans Pacific Partnership, greenlighting oil pipelines, reinstating restrictions on foreign aid to groups that provide abortions — but at least these are items that have long been expected.

Distraction has long been Trump’s modus operandi. He dominated coverage during the primaries with outrageous pronouncements, thereby depriving his opponents of the media spotlight. When news coverage of his transition was particularly tough, he created a new narrative by attacking the cast of the musical “Hamilton.” It’s a constant use of the “dead cat” strategy: throw a dead cat on the table, and prior conversation on any other topic ceases.

But now Trump is president, and the stakes are higher. His fantastic claims about crowd size and voter fraud now divert Americans’ attention from serious and real changes in their government. We gape at dead cats, but the wolf is at the door.[/quote]

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