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How Trump Should Support the Arts
Stimulate creativity by supporting individual artists and halting grants to state agencies.
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Since President-elect Donald Trump has given few clues as to how he will approach arts policy, I thought I would lay out what a Trump administration ought to do.
I applied several standards to my recommendations. First, they must save the federal government money, to appeal to the Republican Congress. Second, they should stand a chance of appealing to Trump, given his stances on other issues. Third, they should offer a reasonable chance of improving the quality of the arts in the U.S., and fourth, the arts community should not hate every aspect of the changes.