Get Ready for Trump to Attack DeSantis from the LeftBy PHILIP KLEIN February 10, 2023 11:27 AM
Florida governor Ron DeSantis is most known for his relatively early abandonment of Covid restrictions and aggressive battles against wokeness in all its manifestations. But he entered politics before today’s culture-war battles were front and center, when the Tea Party was still strong, and when a desire to shrink government was what separated the real conservatives from the RINO wing.
In a post reacting to the Social Security and Medicare dustup between Republicans and President Biden during the State of the Union, Josh Barro reminds his readers that as a member of the House of Representatives, DeSantis not only supported Paul Ryan-style proposals to overhaul entitlements but actually voted for conservative alternatives that went further. Much of Barro’s post is about how Biden could exploit this record in a face-off against DeSantis. But it’s likely that DeSantis will face these attacks well before any theoretical general-election match-up — from Donald Trump.
Trump has consistently rejected the idea of entitlement reform, which he sees as a political loser. Currently, he is lecturing Republicans that they shouldn’t cut a single penny out of Social Security and Medicare. He reiterated that point again yesterday and diverted attention to much smaller items in the federal budget, such as foreign aid, gender-ideology instruction in the military, illegal immigration, and “waste and fraud.”
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