Has there ever been a national public figure as strongly rooted in a mindset of fiscal irresponsibility as Donald Trump? LOL.
Article makes the point that W was the last POTUS who signed a spending bill that went all the way through the Congressional appropriations process. Big deal, he was a big spender too ... just not as big as the demonkkraps.
Your point that the GOP today is exactly what the voters are looking for is true. How many social security beneficiaries here on FR are willing to take a haircut as a contribution to reign in the feral givernment? We won’t because like all the other people feeding at the feral trough, we believe are entitled because we were lied to your face - “it’s your money.” We also know that if we gave back some SS dollars for the purpose of helping save the ferals, the feral givernment won’t shrink one dam# bit but they will promise to do it 10 years down the road. So yes, the “voters” want the GOP that we have - because the GOP today like the demonkkraps will lie too ... will keep the game going...til it crashes.
Your comment about Trump is interesting, but you imply there is no spender worse than him. He was not a fiscal conservative, but I would say FDR, W, bathhouse barry, and FJB are bigger, stronger figures in the area of fiscal irresponsibility. I would also say that if Trump were miraculously (s)elected in 2024, he would be more amenable (listen) to addressing the issue. But he won’t have too listen. Gerrymandering ensures the next Congress will continue to do what they have always done - lie and keep on making your money worthless. But we like to be lied to, don’t we?
They all are. But laying this monstrosity at the feet of the voters isn’t much different than blaming the voters for the border debacle. The reality is that the idiot ruling class keeps these issues off the table. Which accounts for about 99% of the Trump hatred — he at least put the immigration mess on the table, albeit temporarily.
Singling out Trump for lesser versions of what the rest of Washington is doing has become a national pastime for half the country.
Worshipping him as a messiah merely because the ruling class hates him is the pastime of the other half.
Trump’s popularity is rooted in the average person’s hatred of the ruling class. The ruling class made their own monster in Trump by carving out a leadership vacuum for him to occupy.