There’s been a huge backlash to the USAID dismantlement effort on Substack, due to fears surrounding PEPFAR being cut, the end of American soft power, and potentially illegal executive overreach. My piece tries to put together a timeline of events, four arguments against slashing foreign aid, and dabbles in some hopeful prescription for Dems at the end, because after all, only one party has agency.
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If America can lose influence so quickly by simply cutting off payments, did we even have it in the first place?
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DOGE is going to be very hard to explain to future generations in history class:
“Ok so there was this Shiba Inu that people on the early twenty teens internet would use for memes”
“Excuse me, what does this have to do with the reign of King Baron I?”
“HANG ON, WE’RE GETTING THERE! Anyway, a few years later there was a pump and dump…”
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There’s been a huge backlash to the USAID dismantlement effort on Substack, due to fears surrounding PEPFAR being cut, the end of American soft power, and potentially illegal executive overreach. My piece tries to put together a timeline of events, four arguments against slashing foreign aid, and dabbles in some hopeful prescription for Dems at the end, because after all, only one party has agency.
If America can lose influence so quickly by simply cutting off payments, did we even have it in the first place?
DOGE is going to be very hard to explain to future generations in history class:
“Ok so there was this Shiba Inu that people on the early twenty teens internet would use for memes”
“Excuse me, what does this have to do with the reign of King Baron I?”
“HANG ON, WE’RE GETTING THERE! Anyway, a few years later there was a pump and dump…”