I think they'll find the public not nearly as easily suckered this time.
They may even be angry enough to resent being manipulated with pictures of deadbeats who don't pay taxes and who've been gaming the system for decades now.
Welfare queens living in luxury and leisure should be trotted out as a counter example...
You nailed it. The libs have overplayed the boo-hoo card. When there are Americans barely scraping by and working any job they can get just to survive, it’s going to be hard to gin up much sympathy for higher taxes, failed programs, and corrupt bureaucracies. In other words, the Left’s business-as-usual.
The pity well done run dry.