Except when another Republican proposes things like entitlement reform to help bring the deficit under control, in which case they can't stop trashing that Republican and demagoguing the issue.
Yup
Deficits are approaching the 2 trillion price tag under Biden. Normally, the opposition party would salivate at the opportunity to hit the other party relentlessly over deficits like that. It’s low hanging fruit. Even BHO went after GWB over the debt and deficits. Our current path is absolutely unsustainable.
But Trump and his MAGAs are disinterested. Why?
Well, part of the reason is it would focus attention on his own fiscal mismanagement
The other dirty little secret is they want those big deficits spent on them should they win
And this line explains Trump’s debate hesitancy:
He should be on this stage tonight," said Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who is attempting to establish himself as the leading Trump alternative despite recent struggles to break out from the rest of the pack. "He owes it to you to defend his record where they added $7.8 trillion to the debt. That set the stage for the inflation we have now."
And RDS is right. But Trump would rather just come up with silly nicknames to entertain his base and moderators would rather ask questions about voting candidates off of islands
Trump got lucky in his first term. He didn’t inherit an economy in freefall and inflation was relatively low. He could tweak a regulation here and there to give the economy a little boost. 2024 will be different.
