Donald Trump’s favorite Schtick is dead in the water
The approval of the Mass Budget bill of President Donald Trump that cuts taxes for the rich, collects them for the poor and reduces medical care for millions should rest in a long time that Trump is remarking the Republican party to a party of the working class.
This is the same old agenda defended by Republicans for decades. Each presidential administration of the Republican Party has successfully promulgated regressive tax cuts for the richest. Trump has done that again, only this time, taxes will also increase for the poorest.
What is different this time? The Republicans finally took the medical attention of millions of Americans after trying and failing numerously over the years. President Bill Clinton vetoed Newt Giningrich’s attempts to reduce Medicaid in 1995. Trump has just signed huge cot cuts. The efforts to repeat or gartain the law of low -price health care failed repeatedly, so far.
This is not an agenda aimed at helping poor people, working class or the middle class. It is aimed at enriching the already rich while punishing everyone else.
None of the supposed elements of the populist agenda that were expanded in public took place. Medicaid cuts only increased after the Senate assumed the bill, that Senator Josh Hawley (R-MO.) Said he would oppose and Trump’s former advisor Steve Bannon openly criticized. Hawley voted for the bill. The bill did not increase tax rates for the highest, since numerous articles suggested that Trump supported. Instead, he reduced those tax rates.
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The result of this bill will be a net negative for all, except the rich. It will reduce the economy, lower average salaries and send four fifth fiscal benefits to 10% higher, according to an analysis of the Wharton school from the University of Pennsylvania.
“On a dynamic life for life, low -income households and some in the middle class are worse, as well as all future generations,” says Wharton’s school analysis.
It is true that the Republican party has seen a dramatic change in the composition of people who vote for their candidates. Its voting support base is now found in the lower and medium classes, unlike its prior inclination to the accommodation. But that has not translated into politics.
On the other hand, Trump’s greatest legislative achievement in his second term is as close as the Republicans have come to promulgate the punitive and regressive budgets pressed by the former president of the House of Representatives, Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) In the 2010.
This is certainly part of the reason why each Republican who pushes the bill on television or online lied about what was in it.
“No one will lose coverage as a result of this bill,” said the director of the Office of Management and Budget, Russell Vought, to CNN in June.
“There are no medicaid cuts on the big bill.
But some of those who have defended the transformation of the Republican party into a party of the working class are not very satisfied with this development.
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“No ruling party in the history of the United States has wasted a decent mandate and a tectonic populist realignment of the way the Trump II Republican Party is doing it now,” Sohrab Ahmari, a prominent right -wing populist thinker, wrote on social networks After the bill approved the Senate.
Oren Cass, who runs the group of Populista Populista experts American Compass, He told Politico That the passage of the bill was like “a march of death through a series of options that nobody really wanted to do.”
“No one really has a case for it, and it is not clear why it is happening,” said Cass. “I guess that could be the best thing to say about it.”
This was the most obvious result of Trump’s re -election. He did not move away from the economic orthodoxy of the Republican Party in his first term, and did not realize it in 2024, so why would anyone think he would break his when he was in office? Yes, he entertains questions about the elevation of tax rates for the rich, but Trump would say he is considering drilling the earth’s crust to find King Kong on the Hollow Earth if asked.
What matters are Trump’s actions and the Republican party, not their empty rhetoric about defending workers. These actions are the fulfillment of the wet dreams of Paul Ryan, Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush.
As the scriptures say, a good tree cannot bear bad fruit, and a bad tree cannot bear good fruit. And this bill is poorly fruit.