This is now a "you're not agreeing with me enough in the way I want" arguments, and it's non-falsifiable. If the GOP majority works with a Dem president to get deficits down, they love deficits. If they run deficits, they love deficits. Well, okay. /1
My point is that under Trump they're no longer even *nominally* opposed to deficits, and that *is* new. Yes, I get it @JoshuaMound, politics is full of hypocrites who hate any spending but the spending they like. Duh. /2
@JoshuaMound But you give way too much credit to this as a clever strategy (yes, #eyeroll I saw the link) and not enough to the reality that there were Republicans who did care about deficits more than as a device. Not everything has always been about owning the libs. /2
@JoshuaMound You also ignore that both parties spend on what *they* think matters, and Reagan's military buildup was (imo) necessary. Neither of us know what GWB would have done absent 9/11. But that's not the point. There was a definable difference between the parties on this. Now, none. /3x
