[dragonwriter]

> I'm vaguely sympathetic to the idea of "elect a business person so they can run government like a business"

I really don't want a government that ruthlessly cuts costs that don't drive revenue and uses all mechanisms within reach to maximize lock-in and extract monopoly rents from customers.

[mirimir]

Wasn't that a Trump campaign theme?

But anyway, it's not new. That was a lot of that maybe a century ago in the US.

[mrguyorama]

That was the words that came out of Trump's mouth, but not what his supporters heard