# Trump-" "Require for every new federal regulation, two existing regulations must be eliminated."

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**Created:** [October 22, 2016, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-require-for-every-new-federal-regulation-two-existing-regulations-must-be-eliminated/769410 "2016-10-22T23:06:30Z")\
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**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\
**Post date:** [October 22, 2016, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-require-for-every-new-federal-regulation-two-existing-regulations-must-be-eliminated/769410/3 "2016-10-22T23:19:22Z")

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Here’s my response, from the longer thread:

> [@Clinton v Trump - The Stretch Run Thread](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clinton-v-trump-the-stretch-run-thread/767277/3295):
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> By creating a new Federal regulation which has, within itself, the text of the two it replaces, plus the text of the new regulation they wanted to pass anyway.
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> Which gives a really nifty tool for political brinkmanship: “That regulation you need to do this function? Give me this new language, or I won’t support it.”
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> It’s the kind of shit people come up with when they honestly believe that an inactive government is a good thing, and that any government action is definitionally bad and freedom-limiting.

I might have been too cynical, I suppose. It’s possible to support this idea if you think there are “too many government regulations” which “hurt real Americans” in some ill-defined fashion, but you’re not a deep thinker or accustomed to facts. I’m sure a number of the people who are most on-board with this plan honestly believe that there’s a law against offending minorities, given that they can’t tell the jokes their parents told without getting dirty looks or a write-up from HR. It fits with the whole “President as King” belief apparently shared by the most ardent Trump supporters, in that both reflect a compete ignorance of what the Federal government is and how it works. It probably also correlates with the belief that “anti-racist is code for anti-white” and Affirmative Action means utterly unqualified minorities being hired instead of qualified white males.

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