This Week the GOP Will Again Roll Out The Brutal Scam They’ve Used To Con America for 40 years
With phony “concern for the debt,” Republicans will try to sucker-punch a fourth Democratic President: will it work again?
The only thing wrong with the U.S. economy is the failure of the Republican Party to play Santa Claus.
-Jude Wanniski, March 6, 1976
The Republican Party has been running a long con on America since Reagan’s inauguration, and somehow our nation’s media has missed it — even though it was announced in The Wall Street Journal in the 1970s and the GOP has clung tenaciously to it ever since.
And over the next few weeks as President Biden’s Covid Recovery bill moves through Congress, a new generation of Americans will have an opportunity to watch it play out in real time.
The GOP discovers a long con that works
It’s always succeeded in the past; in fact, Republican strategist Jude Wanniski’s 1974 “Two Santa Clauses Theory” has been the main reason why the GOP has succeeded in putting our last two Republican presidents, Bush and Trump (despite losing the popular vote both times) in the White House. It’s also why Reagan’s economy seemed to be so “good.”
