Richardson summarizes the intra-party debate within Republican circles over their coming budget. Separately, Yglesias looks at how people tend to believe falsehoods more easily when they conform to pre-existing beliefs. Among the most pernicious a priori beliefs in American politics is that Republicans are better for the economy. Republicans are, in fact, better for big business and the increasing oligarchic control of those businesses.
Last night the GOP House began the process of writing their budget. It would destroy so much of America's already tattered safety net that finding a way to pass an actual budget - as opposed to a budget resolution - would seem to be an impossibility. My favorite quote was from a swing district Republican who received a "personal commitment" from Trump that Medicaid and Medicare would not be gutter. Because as we all know, Trump is a man of his word.
As Richardson notes, some of the GOP enthusiasm for Musk's chainsaw attack on the federal government is because axing these services is deeply unpopular, so they feel they can avoid responsibility for what he's doing. However, as Yglesias notes, people tend to rely on their a priori beliefs, and people think that the GOP hates government. (That one's true.) Every evisceration of public services will come back to haunt Republicans, whether it's from Musk or their own budget, especially since their budget will destroy things like Medicaid to pay for Musk's tax cuts and government subsidies.
But hey, HR telling you to put your pronouns in your email signature is the REAL elitism.
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