Trump is a BigGovt, swamp-loving guy. Nothing new.
The overriding factor this cycle, though, is that Trump is self-centered. He doesn't care if these horrible entitlements are going to fail. It won't happen till his career is over. He's got one political cycle left in his political life. He'll say or do nearly anything it takes to win in 24.
Trump has taken more Left turns lately than a NASCAR driver.
The only Right turn of late is his wise comments about the neocon's latest war.
SS is the worst entitlement in that it grows dependency on the feds which distorts rational thinking. There are otherwise intelligent R folks who talk about SS like it's a good thing - mostly because they are now dependent on it.
Rush was Right about this, as usual: Lefties judge the success of an entitlement program by how many are in it. Righties judge the success of the nation and Freedom based on how many are not.
Paul Ryan was Right too. Years ago. When he wanted to push entitlements to the states.
“ Rush was Right about this”
No, Rush was wrong in rooting for Paul Ryan’s crusade to cut “entitlements”. Republican voters are heavily represented among Social Security recipients. Why would they go out and vote for a party that pledges to cut Social Security - while vowing not to cut a dime from the military industrial complex? I wasn’t at all surprised that McCain and Romney/Ryan lost; they followed Rush’s advice, calling for “entitlement” cuts. Trump didn’t, and he WON