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You rarely see news analysis pieces asking whether the GOP has drifted too far right to be viable in 2020. But their plan to steal people’s health care and Social Security to pay for their tax cuts for billionaires is pretty much textbook political suicide.
In 2016, Trump ran on a dual platform of A) racism & B) promising to raise taxes on rich people like himself and protect Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid while guaranteeing health care for all and ending outsourcing. He’s kept the first promise but shredded all the others.
One reason so many Republicans were tepid about him in 2016 was that on economic issues, he often sounded like a populist progressive. But that was key to his victory. Now, he’s broken all those promises, and Wisconsin communities are reeling from the results.
He can’t run on his record. It’s our job to also make sure he can’t run *from* his record. To make sure folks know what he’s done, and what he plans to do. To make sure $1 trillion in proposed cuts to Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid can’t get swept under the rug.
Trump’s colossal political weakness on earned benefit programs isn’t just a lesson learned from just about every election in the last half century—it’s also shown in recent WI polling by @ChangePolls and @crookedmedia. It’s info folks don’t know yet—but find intensely persuasive. 
