From their perspective, GOP members of Congress basically sold their souls to the devil by voting for the $2 trillion relief package. They can justify it by telling themselves that it was necessary to keep Trump in office and the free-spending Democrats out of power. But what happens after the election? What will they say in January, 2021?
If Biden wins in November, history tells us that the GOP will immediately start screaming about the deficit and demanding spending cuts. It is consistent both with their ideology and their desire to sabotage growth under a Democratic president. But what if Trump wins? No longer subject to the will of the electorate, will he continue with opportunistic “national conservative” economic policies, or will he swerve back to the CLs and support radical spending cuts?
I don’t know the answer to that one–only that it will come up, and be the source of serious debate within the GOP.