Basically, it’s a switch and bait. Rile against the budget deficit, the public debt, the rise in inequality (if that isn’t still denied, as it has been for a long time), pose as the working and middle class champion and then implement huuuuuge tax cuts which overwhelmingly go to the rich, do little for the economy, crater public finances which necessitates either big spending cuts in programs for working and middle classes or a huge deficit..
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