Will Biden Follow GOP Advice and Shoot Santa Claus?

In the process of killing the $2000 Covid survival checks, Mitch McConnell and his fellow Republicans resurrected their Party’s longest-running scam, an idea laid out by Jude Wanniski back in the 1970s to use the deficit to destroy Democrats.

The history is fascinating, and not only tells us how they’ll be re-running this long con but also what Democrats can do to expose it.

Jude Wanniski Hatches a Plan

Odds are you’ve never heard of Jude Wanniski, but without him Reagan wouldn’t have become a “successful” president, Gingrich wouldn’t have taken control of the House, Bill Clinton wouldn’t have been impeached, and neither George Bush would have been president.

A rather bookish fellow, tending toward balding with a tuft of gray hair in the center of his head in his later years, Wanniski was personally charming, although quite willing to go after his political or economic opponents when engaged in debate or in the media.

Trained as a journalist, he spoke with a slight Brooklyn accent and was often represented as an expert on economics and sometimes even introduced as an economist, although he had no academic qualifications in that field whatsoever.

Nonetheless, his “big idea” was that there are really only two types of economics in…