Republicans are friendly to business and
suspicious of regulations. They want minimal government as a matter of
principle. But there is another group that wants to shrink government:
professional criminals who hate cops. They want no interference when they hurt
people.
President Trump's recent executive order,
titled "Reducing Regulation and Controlling Regulatory Cost," speaks
the language of the principled libertarians, but its beneficiaries are likely
to be the thugs.
I elaborate in a new piece on CNN.com,
here.