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# Imitation is the Highest Form of Flattery
- URL: https://goodoil.news/imitation-is-the-highest-form-of-flattery/
- Published: 2019-09-03T00:30:24.000Z
- Updated: 2019-09-02T09:54:32.000Z
- Author: Juana Atkins
- Tags: Blog, NZ, NZ Politics, Politics, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-17 03:49

On the **28th of August**, the BFD published [my article ](https://thebfd.co.nz/2019/08/national-follows-in-trumps-deregulation-footsteps/?ref=goodoil.news)*National Follows in Trump’s Deregulation Footsteps* where I made a connection between the National Party’s new policy to a new policy of the Republicans under President Donald Trump.

> The wets in the National party will hate me describing their policy as following in Trump’s deregulation footsteps, but that is exactly what they are doing with their announcement that **“National will light a regulations bonfire.”**  
> President Donald Trump promised he’d get rid of bad rules.

> “Remove the anchor dragging us down!” he said when campaigning for president. “We’re going to cancel every needless job-killing regulation!”  
> Trump was a developer, so he knew that the thicket of rules government imposes often makes it impossible to get things done.  
>  
> \[…\] When he took office, he hired regulation skeptics. He told government agencies: **Get rid of two regulations for every new one you add.**  
>  
> \[…\] National has declared that when they are back in government they will **repeal 100 regulations in their first six months** and will **eliminate two old regulations for every new one that they introduce**.  
>  
> Donald Trump’s government has cut approx 5 regulations for every new regulation.  
>  
> The BFD

Two days later, on the **30th of August,** the following cartoon was published by Murdoch in which she also makes a link between National’s new policy and Trump.

Either great minds think alike, or Murdoch reads the BFD for inspiration.

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/31/f4/31f4e20a-0315-499e-83ff-139e8eab53bf/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/edkflw2vuaaabzw.jpg)