Did you wonder why the Republicans are having trouble agreeing on a stimulus package? Here’s why we’re about to go off the cliff:
- CLs: The horror! The horror! The deficit is exploding! Cut spending immediately!
- CDs: Do whatever you have to do to avoid widespread misery.
- PBPs: Keep those business subsidies coming! But we also want liability protection, and the extra unemployment benefits have to go. They are effectively a minimum wage of $15 per hour. We can’t have that.
- Reactionaries: Spend whatever is necessary to keep Trump in office, so he can keep fighting the culture wars.
The upshot of this is that the Reactionaries will flip and become adamantly opposed to deficits if Biden wins the election. They only support spending that primarily benefits white Christians in one way or another.