One of the least remarked-upon chapters in the Republicans’ ghastly Project 2025 documentdealt withtheir plan to cut Social Security and Medicare, ostensibly to fix the impending trust fund shortfall and eliminate the national deficitall at once.The reason hardly anyone talked about it is that if there’s one thingwe know about Republicans, from the so-called moderates to the most extreme MAGA true believers, it’s that they want to do away with those commie pinko programs once and for all.
But there’s a problem: Nearly all Americans depend on those commie pinko programs to some extent, including many Republican voters. So the ideologues are always forced to couch their desire to slash federal spending to the bone in some version of “We have to kill the programs in order to save them.” Nobody buys it, and the world moves on.
