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by pessimizer 677 days ago
Let me get this straight: the "close relationship to JD Vance" is that he wrote an article that mentioned that Vance said something nice about Lina Khan, and this article means that Trump will "most likely" fire Lina Khan and hire Matt Stoller?
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That article is one of the several engagements he's been putting on recently in the right-sphere.

His most damning quote was from 2023 that “fundamentally, my view is that authoritarianism is coming from the private sector,” not from those who’d attempt to seize control of democratic institutions by force. [0]

> Trump will "most likely" fire Lina Khan and hire Matt Stoller

He doesn't need to fire Lina Khan (though he most likely would) because Melissa Holyoak's term is expiring in 2025

[0] - https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/04/21/matt-stoll...