This article was music to my ears.

How 7 states could thwart GOP plans to overhaul Medicaid

Republicans have a bigger tent than they did in 2017. So does the health care program.

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“Cutting Medicaid seems to be popular with some Republican elites and some right wing think tanks that are getting funded by some right wing billionaires, but they’re unquestionably not popular with the Republican voters,” Joan Alker, the executive director of the Center for Children and Families at Georgetown University’s McCourt School of Public Policy, told reporters at a briefing on Medicaid this week. “We’ve seen many polls recently asking voters to rank what they wanted … and cutting Medicaid was literally the last on the list for voters of all stripes.”

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“I don’t quite think Republicans know the backlash they’re in for,” said Brad Woodhouse, a former Democratic National Committee official who now runs the progressive health care advocacy group Protect Our Care. “And it’s going to be a particularly bitter pill in these states that have used ballot initiatives because in those cases, the voters have really spoken about their preference.”

I don't think there is any such thing as Trump Derangement Syndrome. 

This time around, a big part of what I feel is Trump Rage.  Like when I think about the dead DEI babies in Africa, thanks to White South African child abuser Elon Musk, I just feel Trump Rage.  I think it is healthy, and perfectly justified.  It's already clear we're going to have a pandemic of Trump Rage.

This Medicaid article is about the Trump Stress Test.  Which I view as a good thing, and which makes me feel good.  The fact that Trump has brought more working class people into the Republican Party has created new stress tests.  It makes it at least somewhat harder for them to do cruel shit on behalf of their rich special interest donors.

I like the fact that Republicans know that in 2024 the only reason they won is because a sliver of Blacks and a large chunk of Hispanics voted for them.  In addition to, of course, a lot of White working class voters.  A lot of smart Republicans know they can't bite the hand that votes for them.

Of course, I'm pretty sure they will, anyway.  At the end of the day, who is more powerful?  Steve Bannon, who loves dishing out on The Queers but knows you don't fuck with your own populist base?  Or Elon Musk, who thinks he is here to save humanity?  The special interest billionaire donors won most of the booty in the first season of Trump.  I suspect they will do it again.  We'll see.

But I like the Trump Stress Test.  At some point, if you are going to say you are the working class party, you actually have to be for the working class.  

And I may be the only American who is not convinced that there is a real long-term movement of Hispanics to the Republican Party, anyway.  The percentage of Hispanics who voted for Kamala Harris in 2024 is almost exactly the same as the percentage of Hispanics who voted for Jimmy Carter in 1980.  Is this a historic change?  Or mostly being pissed about inflation?

So Republicans like to say Democrats can't win a majority without the Latino vote.  But neither can Republicans.  I think that is probably a good thing for America.   Which is a DEI country, whether Trump likes it or not.