As I’ve noted many times before, Ron DeSantis has not been a budget cutter as governor of Florida. According to Jamelle Bouie, however, DeSantis was, in fact, a budget hardliner as a member of the House, at which time, among other things, he supported cuts to Social Security and Medicare.
Whoops! The elderly are a huge part of the reactionary base. Wars on wokeness and cuts to “welfare” are certainly welcome to them, but reductions in Social Security and Medicare? Not so much.
Chances are, the Hungarian Candidate’s enthusiasm for entitlement cuts back in the Tea Party’s heyday were just as opportunistic as his war on wokeness is today. Nevertheless, Trump and his other adversaries are going to make him wear this, bigly.