There has been an effort (and I get it) to reach out to "normal" Republicans in order to create a schism between the old GOP and the MAGA cancer that is eating at American civil democracy. As long as MAGA controls the GOP, we are at the mercy of a handful of voters as to whether we careen into authoritarianism.
However, the recent budget that has emerged from the House GOP is a reminder that the normal agenda of the Republican Party is terribly cruel.
There is an argument that people like Yglesias won't let go of: that Trump moderated on some of the worst and least popular ideas of Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan. I suppose there is truth that those low information Trump voters are primarily concerned that Republicans won't cut their Social Security and keep their farm subsidies flowing. To a certain degree, Trump has kept a few of those red lines, but that has created a budget structure that is untenable.
The fiscal wreckage that they are about to unleash is really catastrophic. Despite the Doomerism, I really think that much of what Trump is doing actually can be undone fairly quickly - a couple of years. Wrecking America's credit might actually produce the collapse of America that Trump claims to be trying to avert.
Federal workers are really, really important. Most Republicans disagree with that basic premise of public service. They have turned Reagan's quips about government being the problem to an organizing philosophy that is incompatible with 21st century society.
There are no "good Republicans." The ones who might be are fast becoming independents.
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