Save Reagan’s Favorite Government Agency From DOGE

The Gipper would have understood that cutting democracy-promotion is self-defeating, especially after Assad’s ouster.

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President Reagan, who created the National Endowment for Democracy in 1982, speaking on the Strategic Defense Initiative at Waterton, Colorado on November 24, 1987. Via Wikimedia Commons

The fall of Bashar Assad’s tyranny in Syria is a reminder of the universal yearning for freedom and of how brittle even the most entrenched dictatorships can turn out to be. In such a moment, it’s tone-deaf and self-defeating for the bean-counters in the Trump transition to be targeting for cuts the one government agency that aims explicitly to promote freedom, democracy, and rule of law.

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