Friday, May 23, 2025

Conservative Almost Gets It, Then Polishes The Turd Anyway

The MAGA movement's top economic guru is not happy about the GOP's "big, beautiful" domestic policy bill passed by the House early Thursday.

"I liken it to a death march through a series of choices that nobody really wanted to be making," said Oren Cass, the chief economist of the right-leaning think tank American Compass and a leading proponent of conservative economic populism among allies of Donald Trump.

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But despite his disappointment with the bill, Cass defended the notion that, in general, the GOP's economic agenda is coming to reflect the interests of the party's increasingly working-class base " even if that transformation is not happening as quickly as Cass would like on Capitol Hill.

Keep polishing that orange turd, s*&^heap while it keeps stealing from all of us.

#1 | Posted by jpw at 2025-05-23 10:42 AM

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