When President Biden unveiled his long-awaited student loan forgiveness plan last week, his good-not-great proposal was met with nervous jubilation from debt-holders — matched only by the rancor and self-pity radiating from the “I suffered and so should you” corners of the right-wing fever swamp. Still, despite the grumblings from conservatives perfectly willing to have their loans forgiven — just not anyone else’s — the plan has largely been seen as a significant achievement for an administration slowly getting the hang of actually, y’know, accomplishing things.
Given the undeniable public hunger for some form of student loan forgiveness, and the impotent hollowness of their “it’s just not fair” critiques, some conservatives have pivoted to an even more extreme line of attack against the Biden plan: that it’s a threat to national security.
