You're drawing the line at things that are already happening. Legal citizens are being put into literal camps (the fact it's a modern warehouse or a Salvadorian prison doesn't make it less of a camp) solely based on their appearance.

He's blatantly making moves to enrich himself (see meme coins, tariff back and forward, etc), and unless you live under a rock, the collateral damage should be clear to you now. He's constantly lying when he speaks and I'm sure an educated person as yourself can see that.

You say the other side was more dangerous long in the long term, and although I don't like either side either, it was clear which side was still progress.

You somehow got into a mental state where you're able to trust someone to do things in good will and at the same time say that he's "not a nice man".

You support what is being done, and at the same time you say you don't understand it and you admit it's possible he doesn't either.

Please, take a second to think why billionaires of all people, would be interested in doing anything that doesn't benefit them. They're billionaires because they spent their life doing just that, they don't care about you and I.

You're clinging to the hope that maybe what they're doing somehow benefits you, but you're not even sure how that would happen.

"If you don't complain, maybe your job is not important". "If you complain, your job is important".

Do these takes sound reasonable to you?

> For work that does produce actual value, assistance could be provided in converting that mission to a private company if the entities that depended on it existing will realistically pay for its services.

If the solution is to privatize anything that produces value (and I think we can agree that cancer research does produce value), why do we need the government again? That scenario doesn't even sound realistic as it assumes the transition would be done seamlessly, but that can't happen when the existing entity is shut down abruptly.

I think it's blatantly obvious that removing funding from NIH is a negative thing for regular people (not only for Americans), but naive people still try to spin actions like this as something that is being done in their best interest. Please think instead in terms of "how can benefit the people that made the decision", and you'll soon find the real reason why it's being done.