What would happen in a Republican primary if one candidate called for fiscal responsibility and another rejected this as an attack on Medicare and Social Security? We don’t have to guess, because this scenario has been tested. https://plus.thebulwark.com/p/donald-trump-is-running-a-democratic-campaign
@bulwarkonline there’s no need to explain a steady rise with a singular event in the center of it when Occam’s Razor provides such a targeted explanation why those two programs *exclusively* have growing support in the GOP starting before Trump— the right is aging. Boomers are hitting retirement age about now and swelling the ranks of conservatives concerned about their financial security. Thus the gulf between age-qualified programs versus food stamps, student loan relief, etc.
