Mitch McConnell and the GOP's strategy: 1) Pass massive tax cuts for wealthy donors, saying they'll pay for themselves. 2) Collect campaign donations. 3) Use deficits to justify cuts to Social Security & Medicare. 4) Eliminate the estate tax. 5) More cuts to programs. 6) Repeat.
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This strategy aims to under-fund all government agencies and programs, thereby rendering them incapable of performing their assigned functions, thereby making them legitimate targets for further under-funding. Eventual goal: a government weak enough to strangle in the bathtub.
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Trouble is, of course, that McConnell et. al. don't seem to be contemplating the disturbing possibility that, once it's weak enough, Putin actually will strangle our government in the bathtub.
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