[lokar]

That’s not what the right thinks. They are obsessed with him and rolling back the new deal.

[hyhatqtv]

The New Deal was mostly rolled back a while ago. After all corporatism did generally fall out of fashion for after WW2 (and of course there was quite a bit of opposition of state planning due to geopolitical reasons in the 50s and later)

[lokar]

Social security? And the follow-up, Medicare?

[hedora]

Those are both being actively dismantled.

[myroon5]

Social Security and Medicare are ~26% and ~16.5% of the federal budget (excluding the 15% of the budget that's just financing previous years' budgets):

https://fiscaldata.treasury.gov/americas-finance-guide/feder...

[lokar]

And?