FreddyE1977
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I I doubt Trump will get his way on the elimination of the NEA and NEH solely on the strength of his personal distaste for culture.
What makes you think he was motivated by a "personal distaste for culture"? You can Google photos of him attending the Met, Broadway, and other New York cultural events, going back decades.
It's a basic tenet of Conservatism that such things should be paid for by the private sector. Or at the very least they should be a very low priority for a government that is already $21 trillion in debt. (and yes, some of us are motivated by the fact that we feel PBS/NPR give short-shrift to our points of view, while still taking our money).
Not that I am going to defend him here, as the way he has handled this made clear that he was not motivated by any principles that involve fiscal responsibility.