When dealing with the extreme left, one must first confront its fundamental dishonesty, starting with the fraudulent names leftists give their proposals. See e.g. “Affordable Care Act”; American Rescue Plan”; “Inflation Reduction Act”; all of which are outright lies. They made nothing “affordable”, “rescued” nothing – except profligate blue states and bankrupt union pension funds – and have nothing whatsoever to do with inflation.Leftists swear undying loyalty to Medicare, yet the ACA cut it by $1T and the IRA by another $300B. But these, we’re assured, aren’t “cuts”; they’re “savings” or “reimbursement reductions”, and those don’t count as cuts – unless they’re proposed by Republicans.Leftist will die for the ACA, but repealed huge portions of it: the parts which actually paid for some of it. Handouts are popular; the taxes to pay for them are not.And the leftist plan to save Social Security from the required benefit reductions as it becomes insolvent, or Medicare from a similar fate, would be ...? (crickets: or crass demagoguery)DeSantis will have a field day with these issues; he’ll just look at his adversary and ask, “how do you propose to pay for your promises?” The subsequent silence will tell an intelligent electorate all it needs to know.

When dealing with the extreme left, one must first confront its fundamental dishonesty, starting with the fraudulent names leftists give their proposals. See e.g. “Affordable Care Act”; American Rescue Plan”; “Inflation Reduction Act”; all of which are outright lies. They made nothing “affordable”, “rescued” nothing – except profligate blue states and bankrupt union pension funds – and have nothing whatsoever to do with inflation.Leftists swear undying loyalty to Medicare, yet the ACA cut it by $1T and the IRA by another $300B. But these, we’re assured, aren’t “cuts”; they’re “savings” or “reimbursement reductions”, and those don’t count as cuts – unless they’re proposed by Republicans.Leftist will die for the ACA, but repealed huge portions of it: the parts which actually paid for some of it. Handouts are popular; the taxes to pay for them are not.And the leftist plan to save Social Security from the required benefit reductions as it becomes insolvent, or Medicare from a similar fate, would be ...? (crickets: or crass demagoguery)DeSantis will have a field day with these issues; he’ll just look at his adversary and ask, “how do you propose to pay for your promises?” The subsequent silence will tell an intelligent electorate all it needs to know.

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