[dworkr]

The debt is not a minor problem, which is why conservatives should be unhappy. The cuts so far are at best rounding error. We're cutting the cheap useful programs (USaid, Ed) and leaving the big issues with entitlements for future bipartisan efforts which everyone knows will never come. The opposite of the 80/20 rule seems to be guiding the process. And a lot of people on the right are free market liberals, including many key never trumpers, so the Milton Friedman fan club and CATO types are not going to point out the obvious math.

[pjc50]

> The cuts so far are at best rounding error

The budget is going to be messy. You're going to get a Liz Truss budget, which is definitely going to make a lot of the public unhappy.

> future bipartisan efforts

I think one effect of all this is creating a group of angry Democrats who, in a mirror of the Tea Party, will start primarying any Democrat who uses the word "bipartisan" as anything but a swearword.

[smegger001]

yeah I predict that we are headed in four years for a hell of a pendulum swing and the republicans need to remember that any norm they violate, any law they break, all of the insane legal theories of a unbound executive they get passed by their pet supreme court justices will be used as precedent by their opposite to the fullest when that pendulum swing back to the left.

[dworkr]

The only way to avoid that requires a lot of very angry people realizing that it's in their own interest to embrace their enemy. That literally never happens. So RIP to the way we were. If only more people valued institutions and heritage, rather than seeing America's value in dynamism singularly. Identity requires long term memory.