[carefulfungi]

The administration has attacked, as they promised when running for election, all of the perceived power centers of its opposition: the arts, individuals, educational institutions, selected law firms, science and researchers, civil servants, selected broadcasters, immigrants (legal and illegal), election systems (through both the legal system and political gerrymandering), selected industry projects - especially renewables - and has even made disaster relief partisan. There's nothing unique about the attack on research; it is consistent with the stated intent of the republican majority.

[pjmlp]

Also from the outside, and as first generation out of Salazar's dictorship, all the signs of an authoritarian administration, yet plenty of people are behaving as it will go away with elections or something.