This New Gilded Age 0
Sam and the crew follow the money to understand why the right-wing wants to get rid of what it–the right–refers to as “the administrative state,” that is, federal regulatory and research agencies established to protect the well-being of the country and its inhabitants. (Disregard the caption in the video below; it misses the gist of the clip.)
As an aside, it sounds a lot like today’s Republican Party wants to bring back the spoils system, eliminate the separation of powers and the civil service, and crown its own czar.