One advocate said the Texas Republican laid bare the "two-pronged strategy to push Social Security privatization: Creating the Trump accounts with one hand and gutting the Social Security Administration with the other."

In the not-too-distant future, Cruz envisioned, “we’re going to be able to go to parents and say, ‘Hey, you know that Trump Account your kid has? … Wouldn’t you like to be able to keep a portion of your tax payments that you’re paying already and, instead of sending it to Uncle Sam, wouldn’t you like to have a Trump Account just like your kid does?’'’

“My prediction is, within five years, that is going to have a really compelling constituency,” the Texas Republican added.___

  • Kronusdark@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    17 hours ago

    Could you imagine if Obama made them actually call it Obamacare. There would have been riots.

    • Zink@programming.dev
      2·
      12 hours ago

      Absolutely.

      It’s almost funny, like they are going through a checklist to retcon everything they ever said about their opponents to be projection.

      Of course, a lot of it was genuine projection because that’s how they think.

      Plus obviously it’s not funny to watch a cult of personality take hold so easily and wreck so much for so many.