Yes, your Medicaid's gone but you can gloat over gators

By Sid Schwab / Herald Columnist

Fantasy: If every voter knew and understood everything that was in Trump’s Big Bad Bogus Belligerent Belied Bereft Baleful Budget Bill, 70 percent of them would vote out of office every Republican who voted for it.

It’s safe to assume, though, that those who get their “news” from the White House official media outlets, Fox, Newsmax, OAN, or their talk radio equivalents will never know. Add together Democrats’ signature inability to produce a coherent and clear message and Republicans’ Machiavellian methods of voter suppression, it’s a bad bet.

What did it take for the performatively recalcitrant but predictably foldable “holdout” Republican congresspeople to fall in line? A trip to the Oval Office featuring Trump-signed tchotchkes and presidential puffery. To paraphrase the old saw, they know what they are; they were just arguing about the price (Esquire: tinyurl.com/junk4u).

Those legislators are so sure their constituents care more about punishing immigrants than they do about their own health care or food security that they’ll overlook what’s being done to them. If not to them, to millions of others about whom they don’t care. They’ll have been convinced that the billions dedicated to Homeland Security for incarceration and deportation are worth it, even though, of the people now being rounded up, fewer than 10 percent have committed violent crimes (Cato Institute: tinyurl.com/2link4u).

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