Trump's move against BLS Commissioner Erika McEntarfer — which he justified by baselessly claiming that Democratic operatives fraudulently manufactured the numbers to make him look bad — has raised massive alarms among experts who fear it could undermine the government's entire ability to produce reliable economic data used for all manner of policymakinNixon was in a similar state of mind more than 50 years ago, wrote Naftali.
But trump is far more corrupt than Nixon. trump has no fear of Congress nor the USSC. He see laws as only regulations that can be broken. He is a law unto himself. He now will take control of the BLS and no one will be able to trust the numbers. It is a playbook for authoritarianism. Tell the people that they are doing fine with fake numbers, while unemployment rises and prices spike for everyone...except the ruling oligarchs.