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The Trump administration is defined by hostility to expertise and has silenced or purged people who know things across agencies.

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  1. Paul Krugman

    Trade economist, Nobel laureate in 2008 for his work on…

    At a fundamental level, they’re just hostile to the idea of expertise in any domain, in pretty much every agency where there’s something to know, where there’s technical stuff that you need to know to make good decisions. The people who actually know things, or the people who are willing to speak up about what they know, have been silenced, purged.

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