The Global Engagement Center, a State Department unit that called out Russian and Chinese propaganda campaigns and became a MAGA boogeyman, has been shut down. Team Trump is promising that it’s just the start of an examination of alleged censorship during the Biden administration—and the first Trump administration, too.
Yup, at one point he was just another republican institutionalist. I admit, I wrote him off.
But he worked really hard, he put in the effort. With his claim he can deport legal residents for future thought crime, and now just inviting in Russia propaganda, he is really becoming one of the most exemplary models of craven nihilistic power-worship in Trump’s cabinet - and that’s tough competition.