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[quote=Anonymous]Chris Cuomo last night questioned why USAID was picked to be examined first. He made some good points, such as when you go after the DoD you have to be prepared to deal with the aerospace giants. But I don’t think he hit on it quite right. Flash forward to a recent description by a blogger in Connecticut of her college visit with her kid to American University, a grossly overpriced yet mediocre private school in DC. She and her kid went to an international day function at the school. Display after display featured leftist causes, and the students often described their work as something that should be funded by a NGO. Little wonder USAID has a digital tool to search NGOs around the globe. Of course USAID is not the only agency giving grants to sustain left wing political causes (there will be more to be discovered) but politically the agency is easy pickings and is a shot across the bow at the far left academic industrial complex. A fellow alum is head of a gender studies and LGBQT program at Berea College in Kentucky. She is fortunate to have this post well, because for most gender studies types the career path is very limited and teaching the subject is one of the few. Cutting off federal grant money is a vital threat to these types. Politically popular, too. A working class family will never get on board with spending tax dollars for a trans opera in Columbia. Even if you make the case that such working class types are anti trans, it is very difficult to justify the spend. I was the law review editor at a top law school. But I was the rare poor kid. Already viewed as anti-intellectual because I was a serious NCAA athlete on scholarship (a bias you see here on DCUM), worst yet in being on my own since age 18 I was a Teamster every summer for years. It was in a fairly rough neighborhood in Chicago, but the workers contrary to today’s MAGA stereotypes were far from stupid. And to understand that culture which has been bruised and battered by global competition goes well beyond who they vote for. I learned my fellow law reviewers they had little understanding of how the vast majority of people lived. They dont strategize how to get their kid in a prestige school. If they are lucky their kid scrimps and saves and works through a local college. If they are lucky.  My colleagues invariably responded that they didn’t like my tough persona.  Heck they were so disconnected from the way people operate in tough neighborhoods that they never recognized being tough in my case was simply keeping my mouth shut. In any event it makes sense that Trump is charging after USAID first. Note the point is not the substance of USAID does but what kind of shot is being made across the bow. [/quote]

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