Consider two recent events that help capture the deadly strangeness of what’s going on. One is the administration’s plan for hog plants to take over much of the federal responsibility for food safety inspections. It’s not as if we’ve seen safety problems arise from self-regulation in, say, the aircraft industry, have we? Or as if there was a reason the U.S. government stepped in to regulate meatpacking in the first place? And Trump seems deranged and irrational on so many issues that one more bizarre claim hardly seems to matter.

Source: New York Times April 04, 2019 20:26 UTC