One time, I was on a car trip with a friend and we passed a yard sign advocating funding (or maybe supporting? It was a long time ago) the fire department. I said “who doesn’t support the fire department?” and she responded “I don’t know … Arsonists?”

So yeah, arsonists might want to see the fire department defunded.

They don’t campaign on that, they campaign on “keeping taxes low” or bullshit like that

Because it wasn’t defunded you fell for bullshit.