Under Biden, the GOP will make lots of noise on the deficit. Ironically, the answer for Democrats is to go hard on spending.
Voters don't actually care about the deficit. They just care about the economy. So to pre-empt deficit concerns, gotta go pedal-to-medal on GDP growth.
Voters don't actually care about the deficit. They just care about the economy. So to pre-empt deficit concerns, gotta go pedal-to-medal on GDP growth.
If the Democrats take power. And if they go small on spending out of fears of being attacked on the deficit, they're going to get crushed in 2022.
Bill Clinton understood this. When a voter in a 1992 debate asked a question about the deficit, he recognized that that was just a proxy for broader economic anxiety.
All that being said, I think there's decent reason to think that it won't play out like this if the Dems sweep. The conversation is obviously changing. The old deficit dogmas falling away. And as Dave notes...
