Opinion: The coming GOP plot to sabotage a Biden presidency
photoshopped as FDR, under the headline “The New New Deal.” But while he did pass a string of significant legislation utilizing government power early in his presidency — a large stimulus bill, Wall Street reform, saving the auto industry, ending bank profiteering on student loans, the Affordable Care Act — two years later Republicans took back the House and ground it all to a halt.That is precisely what Republicans are planning to repeat, especially if Joe Biden becomes president next year.
You can see it in the “Let’s all come to the state capitol and infect each other” protests against stay-at-home orders that are attracting small crowds but huge media attention. Like a miniature version of the tea party, it’s a phenomenon of genuine sentiment that is shaped and organized by right-wing elites, promoted relentlessly byIt may not be much yet, but this is just beginning.
Right now it’s Democrats who want to do the most to rescue the economy, even though a quick recovery represents Trump’s only hope of winning reelection. Republicans are fighting every step of the way to make the rescue packages as small as possible; they may be worried that if we do too much and Trump loses anyway, Biden could be left with an economy getting back on its feet and a population that remembers how the government gave them generous unemployment benefits and a stimulus check or two.
Which is why Democrats also need to begin planning now — not once the crisis is behind us, not once the election is over, but now — for how they’re going to defeat that Republican effort. They need to devise policy plans for Biden’s first year in office that not only help the country but are hard for Republicans to reverse, such as creatingAnd they need to mount a rhetorical assault not just on Trump but on small-government philosophy itself.
Republicans know that the public might arrive at that conclusion — and they’re working to make sure it doesn’t happen. Democrats need to work just as hard to make sure it does.
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