A very good article. Many liberals are in denial about this; they've been conditioned by experience to see the US falling short, which we often do. But not this time, on this issue 1/ vox.com/22348364/unite…
You may wonder how we managed to do so much big spending on people in need while Trump was in office. My take is that we were helped by the GOP's haplessness when it came to substance 2/
When disaster struck, Rs literally had no idea what to do — if it doesn't involve tax cuts or punishing people, their minds are empty. Yet this was bad enough that even they realized that something had to happen. So they basically signed on to plans devised by Ds 3/
Those enhanced UI benefits, in particular — probably the single most important misery-reducer — were Ron Wyden's idea. Remember, also, that Trump officials kept floating useless proposals for corporate tax cuts 4/
So it was a weird moment in which a panicked GOP accepted a center-left agenda. And Biden is now building on that 5/
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