What? Nobody said "defund the FDA." My grandparent poster said he expected them not to use dirty tricks and intimidation, and my parent poster said that it was cool to control the press to "maintain order" (<-- seriously, that's a quote!) and intimated that not controlling the press to maintain order was an alt-right position.

A belief in an independent, skeptical, and indeed antagonistic press was a core left-wing value as of, like, the late 20th Century. I think it still is or ought to be.