re: #87 No Malarkey!

The GOP actually wouldn’t. They couldn’t even repeal Obamacare, which they loathed. They couldn’t privatize Social Security when that was Bush’s top priority. All they would do is cut taxes again, because their libertarian agenda is toxic with their elderly base dependent on social security, medicare and medicaid.

That’s only true as long as Congressional Republicans retain enough of a connection to reality to recognize that ending Social security etc. really would be a disaster for the GOP.

MTG et al. lack this appreciation of reality, this insanity is growing in the GOP caucuses, and ‘moderate’ Republicans never rein in their extremists.

E.g., The only thing that saved Obamacare was that McConnell pissed off McCain.