Dont bury the lede. The news here is Mitch admitting it is a MANAGED decline which by its very definition means it was purposefully and maliciously done. And anyone with half a brain doesnt buy the accusations that MAGA is responsible when they had power for 4 short years out of the last eight and were opposed strenuously by entrenched bureaucrats at every turn and dealt with the single biggest psyop (covid) in the history of the world.