US is descending into fascism - progressive and intentional degradation of state capacity, replaced by 'the leader issuing commands, which governing institutions rubber stamp, whilst for-profit corporations undertake the delivery of services in direct collusion with said leader.

We all need to study how the political economy of 1930/1940's Germany operated, it is not alarmism to say Trump 2.0 is directly tracking the model

Manned Space doesn't deliver much economically. LEO space does. Sad, wish we had a more outward perspective, not surprised by this tbh.