Reactionaries have traditionally supported large regressive GOP tax cuts even though virtually all of the benefits flow to wealthy businessmen, for two reasons. First, they believe in “starving the beast;” any spending cuts that follow, they assume, will fall mostly on minorities and the undeserving poor. Second, after all, it’s money that the wealthy people earned that is just being returned to them; it’s not an odious redistribution program.
If, as I suspect, some form of the Trump plan ultimately becomes law, the Reactionaries may be in for a rude surprise this time, because when the deficit explodes, the fiscal hawks are going to be gunning for their treasured entitlement programs: Social Security and Medicare. Trump has promised not to cut those programs, but he has plenty of people around him who disagree, and in the face of a soaring debt, where else can he cut? Discretionary programs other than defense have already been slashed; there is no other place to go.
In other words, be careful what you ask for, because you might get it.