ROGER KIMBALL: Trump Must Finish Off the National Endowment for Democracy.

Will the NED finally be cancelled if Trump’s “pocket rescission” succeeds? From what I have read, it is not entirely clear. Many of the cuts—totally many hundreds of millions of dollars—are from State Department initiatives that are consanguineous, as it were, the the NED. But I have not seen the NED explicitly named in the cuts.

As I noted last month, what is needed to extinguish the NED is not some magic potion but the concerted attention of Donald Trump. Perhaps, I suggested, the President had thought he had gotten rid of the NED already. I am here to remind him once again that that essential piece of work may yet to be accomplished. It is time to finish the job.

Faster, please.