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Have any right-wing podcasters or influences, etc come up with a non-insane effort how how this is good from their POV?

Not sure, but I imagine it's the same cope like you mentioned. They'll write it off as good because it's defunding research they consider silly and woke

It's simple. In the reactionary view government is inefficient, more government doing things is more communist and communism is bad and inefficient. Private industry is efficient, the markets effectively solve all problems better than government ever could. Thus by removing the public sector the invisible hand of the market will spur private companies to fill in what was needed and the wasteful government communist parts will be left behind while the innovation of capitalism will create better results for those who are deserving and have the money to pay.

This is taken as an axiomatic law of reality. The one and only exception is the military and police.

But more critically, the American reactionary is so alienated, so drenched in the sauce that they don't have a serious worldview, they don't even try to intellectualize their thinking, that is they don't have anything that even really tries to stand up to scrutiny or debate like some realists or classical Keynesian liberals might. They're not interested in honest debate, some are paid and know something is off but enjoy owning the libs so much they don't care, some have class interests reliant on deregulation, many just believe cutting taxes is in their interest and don't understand things like civic goods and projects and have been taught to be unable to connect the dots.

So trying to debate many of them I've found is fruitless, they're not serious about having a logical worldview that can withstand critique, introspection, or real world developments that dispute it, etc, they just are after some more money, they have a religious zeal and conviction reinforced by group dynamics that require adherence to this, it's woven into their "comedy" and jokes they tell one another.

It's very similar to say creationists who will just smirk back at you smugly no matter how much you dismantle their arguments, they just brush it off and laugh at you as believing lies built on lies built on lies because they dislike your sources of authority and choose their own, it doesn't matter, facts don't reach them because they're materially comfortable and believe acting in this way will bring them more comfort or certainly doesn't to their understanding hurt their comfort. Parenti called the propaganda effort writ large "inventing reality" and that's very apt because it's not just about manufacturing consent but about inventing a certain reality and maintaining it in the face of material reality.

It's part of a culture of abhorring and detesting intellectualism of which introspection, critical thought are key parts which certainly keeps the hogs divorced from Marxist theory and other academic matters which is a definite intention. It focuses on the simple explanations. Things not working as expected? You could listen to an egg-head use all these complicated terms and math and charts or you could just accept it's being sabotaged by non-whites, by secret communist cabals, by satanists, by those who hate the country and that feeds into the fear-anger response so stoked and maintained in these people.