Someone probably tried to No True Scotsman the mod. It was the straw that broke the camel's back.
Or maybe the admins were getting too scary. The politics talk on a sub like that must've been immense. There must've been lots of bans by both mods and admins there. Eventually, the admins would've demanded that the mod get things back on track or the mod will be banned as well.
One problem is how to keep out competition like LEOs and other squatters seeing opportunity.
The other would be how to get through the door without destroying it - sure, you can go at it with an ax, but a destroyed door won't stop wild animals coming in.
But if those issues can be solved, I think it's viable.
The full quote, if anyone's interested:
I think it’s going very well. It was an operation, like when a patient gets operated on, and uh, it’s a big thing. I said this would exactly be the way it is. Uh, we have 6 or 7 trillion dollars coming into our country, and uh, we’ve never seen anything like it. Uh, the markets are gonna boom, the stocks’re gonna boom, the country’s gonna boom, and the rest of the world wants to see: Is there any way they can make a deal? They’ve taken away advantage of us for many many years. For many years, we’ve been at the wrong side of the ball, and I’ll tell you what: I think it’s gonna be unbelievable. The thing that people have to talk about - we’re up to almost 7 trillion dollars of investment coming into our country, and uh, you’ll see how it’s gonna turn out. Our country’s gonna boom.
The Irish did pretty well against such odds.