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Consider how he [DeSantis] described his plan to trim the federal bureaucracy this week. 'On bureaucracy, you know, we're going to have all these deep state people, you know, we're going to start slitting throats on Day 1,' he said in Rye, New Hampshire, on Thursday. He similarly said last week that he would 'slit some throats' at the Pentagon if he became president. This is not fun language! Sure, active serial killers might salivate at it, but they're a modest 8 percent of the Republican primary electorate. Ron is recording in mono out there. Trump, meanwhile, can talk about how he's going to replace the career civil service with political appointees in one breath and, in the very next, about his chance to 'make it' with Farrah Fawcett in 1983.
From Slates "The Surge", a weekly, somewhat comic, look at our insane politics.
