Sahil Kapur

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Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur

As for “entitlements”? Fuggetaboutit. For all the 2011 bombast, GOP leaders were too skittish about Social Security & Medicare politics to publicly write & own a set of cuts. Then Obama won ‘12 by bashing Romney-Ryan economics. Rise of Bernie & populist left = nail in the coffin. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Jan. 29, 2023

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And this is the other lesson of 2011, which I lightly touched on in the piece: Neither party had an appetite to sustain those cuts. Republicans wanted military spending back up, Democrats wanted domestic spending back up. That became the template for future budget deals. 🤝 — PolitiTweet.org

Experience looms large in the minds of both sides and informs their posture. Important read in that respect. The mi… https://t.co/fteqdt6sD1

Posted Jan. 29, 2023

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Looking back, 2011 was that rare once-in-a-generation moment for those who wanted to shrink the safety net. Obama WH was so spooked by 2010 they thought there was a mandate for it. It failed for various reasons, the most ironic of which was tea party purity against higher taxes. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Jan. 29, 2023