Thread by @MattGertz

You can see why Mitch McConnell didn't want to roll out a specific policy agenda, this Rick Scott document is fucking nuts politico.com/f/?id=0000017f…

"Socialism will be treated as a
foreign combatant which aims
to destroy our prosperity and
freedom" is either pure bluster or a call to imprison or assassinate a wide swathe of Americans based on their political beliefs.

The plain reading of "No government assistance unless you are disabled or aggressively seeking work" is the termination of Social Security -- or it's bullshit.

"Force Congress to issue a report
every year telling the public
what they plan to do when
Social Security and Medicare go
bankrupt" is the document's only mention of Social Security or Medicare, Medicaid is not mentioned at all.

They're defunding the tax police: "» We will immediately cut the IRS funding and workforce by 50%."

Well this is bad.

"The Democrats favor using
your taxpayer money to finance
political campaigns. No serious
person would ever favor this. It
must never happen."

Nobody told him I guess...

This combination right here is eliminationist logic, just horrific stuff.

"All social media platforms that
censor speech and cancel people will be treated like publishers and
subject to legal action." ????

There's a ton of insane Fox News rhetoric and culture war salvos, but don't sleep on some of the quietly radical and destabilizing policies, like "All federal legislation sunsets in
5 years" or "Sell off all non-essential government assets, buildings, and land."

Republicans want to raise your Americans.

It's hidden all the way off to the side but Jesus this is not good.

Rather than, say, calling for the elimination of the Department of Education or Transportation, they're just putting out vague statements the implication of which is their termination.

This is a radical document that would have far-reaching consequences for every American.

Republicans want to raise your taxes, stop you from voting, let your roads and bridges crumble, ban abortion and trans people, either destroy the economy or end Social Security, and leave you in thrall to whatever corporate interests are willing to toe their culture war lines.

This is a merger of the pre-Trump GOP economic policy consensus (tax increases/spending cuts) -- which he discarded because they were too radical -- with the authoritarian and culture war tropes (crime, the wall, CRT) he adored and that Fox has stoked over the last few years.

Sidebar: This is the only reference in the 31-page document to COVID-19 or vaccination.