Trump is right: As a Democrat, I love his “Big Beautiful Bill”
Everything a radical leftist lunatic could want — and more
Jeffrey Denny
“We will have very little Democratic support, probably none, and that is purely for political reasons. They like it a lot and they cannot say it.”
This was President Donald Trump’s usual bipartisan pitch as the Senate takes up his barely House-passed Big Beautiful Bill.
Call it the “Robbin’ Hoodwink” bill. You know, because the budget and tax legislation fools the poor to enrich the already rich.
But Trump was wrong. As a Democrat, I like his BBB even more than Biden’s Build Back Better. I can say it, and I will say it.
Not because Blue states are getting bigger state and local tax write-offs. Or that Trump’s no tax on tips will inspire sommeliers in our elite Michelin five-star restaurants (not the Michelin tire technicians) to bring their finest vintages and decant with more aplomb. Five better reasons:
He’s screwing his base
Poor whites — his proud MAGAs — who take the most Medicaid, food aid, and other welfare, while believing minorities and immigrants do, may finally wake up and smell the reality that Trump used them like he used women.
Farmers, factory workers, and small businesses will also feel the burn — and not from Bernie or vintage Jane Fonda workout videos — as their government handouts are slashed to trickle down from wealthy pants like the aging Koch Bros. with leaky bladders.
No schadenfreude, “we told you so,” or Simpsons Nelson Muntz mocking “ha ha!” over the MAGA self-inflicted predicament, of course. Unlike MAGAs, Democrats are too woke — i.e., caring about the unfortunate — to pile on.
Maybe hardcore MAGAs will realize immigrants and woke libs are not their worst concern.
He’s destroying the GOP
Hollow thoughts and prayers to cowardly Trump-licking Republicans in Congress fleeing district town halls like roaches when the lights come on. Some (see: Nebraska Rep. Mike Flood) voted for the bill but never read it.
Even in GOP-rigged safe seats, country club, chamber of commerce, struggling middle class and Hillbilly Elegy voters alike are aiming their natural “throw-the-bums-out” politician hate against those who put loyalty to Trump above constituents.
He’s boosting Democrats
Trump threatens to primary Republicans who fail to heil. Great! Put even more whack-jobs on the ballot for Dems to beat in a walk.
Just as Trump’s BBB divided his GOP House, it surely will divide his GOP Senate. As we see from Trump’s culture wars, division is a chance to conquer.
Trump is handing Democrats even more reason to lick our chops as we eye 35 swing and otherwise vulnerable Republican seats to take back the House next fall. One nonpartisan scenario gives Democrats a resounding 236-199 majority.
You think Trump is already lamer than the duck liver pâté at Mar-A-Lago? Try when House Democrats tie up Pam Bondi’s “Justice” Department and most of his shameless Administration sycophants in more criminal proceedings than Weinstein, Diddy, and innocent immigrants combined.
He’s exposing the fiscal conservative lie
Democrats have struggled forever with so-called deficit hawks who, when faced with math, turned out to be mud hens like the Toledo baseball team.
Presidents Reagan, Bush, Bush, and Trump ’45 all posed as budget skinflints (see Bush ’41: “Read my lips: No new taxes”) while painting Democrats as spendthrifts. Then their tax cuts for the wealthy boosted the U.S. debt and deficit, the cost to run the country, and dependence on China and other foreign rivals that buy our debt. Then they handed Democrats a broken economy to fix.
He’s Making America Woker Again
On top of Trump’s “Fart of the Deal” tariff war jacking prices on working families, rifts with our closest allies, culture war to divide and conquer, and destruction of our economy and global leadership, his “Tax the Little Fellers for the Rockefellers” bill may be just the ticket to reunite America.
Like from a frightening nightmare, good Americans will wake up to Don the Con’s latest swindle and realize We the People are smarter and better than this guy. And send his Big Beautiful Butt off to the landfill of history, never again to elect the likes of him.
Jeffrey Denny is a Washington writer.
