We now just automatically jump to assuming "fuck everything, except making more money and Mercuh".
Sad.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29423448.
It wasn't just four years of Trumpism. Trumpism was simply the fruition of decades of successful neoliberal anti-government propaganda, primarily from the Republicans, going back at least as far as Reagan saying "Government is not the solution to our problem, government is the problem." What Trumpism added was mainstreaming conspiracy theory on top of the general disposition that government should be starved until it was weak enough to be drowned in the bathtub. So now the Libertarians are talking about limited government and how Fauci created COVID for the Illuminati.