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Xeybozn posted...

Does he want to kill them? He seems to be saying that we should make them discretionary so we can deny certain people benefits. That's not how it works, obviously, but it's hard to say whether he wants to kill them and is appealing to race/class to convince voters to support that or if he's just too stupid to know what he's talking about. (Or maybe even both?)

I mean, he doesn't outright say he wants to end them but that is the obvious outcome of moving them to discretionary spending. Even if you take him at his word (and I'd say the Johnson and the GOP absolutely have shown they do not deserve the benefit of the doubt) and he "just" wants to deny "certain" people benefits that's pretty much guaranteed to be so against the purpose of the programs that it is killing it in spirit if not name.

Like, killing these programs has been a long-term goal of the GOP for decades. They keep trying to find a way to frame it that they think can run cover for them but that's what it has always been about. Privatization, this, etc.