“No Obamacare?” one attendee of the Pennsylvania event asked Johnson.
“There is no Obamacare,” Johnson replied.
Johnson claims Republicans have “lots of ideas” for reform. But if there is a plan now that didn’t exist when Trump first tried to repeal the ACA — which failed only because the late John McCain disagreed with it — then they’ll keep it a secret. All Johnson would say Tuesday, to assuage anyone concerned that they would lose health care under a second Trump administration, was that the GOP would “remove government officials from the way health care program”.
“We want to bring the blowtorch to regulatory status,” Johnson said.
It can be said that “state management” is also a concern of Musk – not surprising, considering antagonistic relationship between his companies and the federal agencies that conduct oversight of them. Musk has called for creating one Department of Government Effectiveness-or DOGEreference to a meme (and cryptocurrency) that the 53-year-old found irresistibly funny — and Trump assign he will touch him to run it. “We need to do it,” Trump speak at the Economic Club of New York in September.
Of course, this dismantling of the entire federal government is Main tenets of Project 2025Second Trump administration blueprint. “The bigger the government, the less personal freedom you have,” Musk said at a recent rally. But Trump’s plan to dismantle the administrative state wouldn’t just target D.C. officials he calls the “deep state” — it could harm the federal workforce spread across the country, and that includes not only regulators but also Americans of all kinds. of work, about 30 percent of it is held by veterans. Trump sees such an overhaul as “draining the swamp.” But the cuts will be felt by workers—and communities—far from Washington.
The Republican Party has long had success in urging working-class supporters to vote against their own interests, portraying themselves as heroes of the “working class” while also marginalizing systems and institutions that allowed the middle and working classes to thrive. But that dynamic has evolved even harsher in the Trump era, as he and his MAGA allies capitalize on disillusionment to fuel culture war discontent.
“For those who have been wronged and betrayed,” he speak at the start of his 2024 campaign, “I am your karma.”
But Trump isn’t fighting for anyone but himself, and the division he’s sowing along the way will only “help those at the top and hurt everyone else,” as Kamala Harris included it in her compelling campaign closing message on Tuesday.
Trump is “asking you to give him four more years in the Oval Office — not to focus on your problems but to focus on his,” Harris said in a speech Tuesday at the Ellipse , where this “petty tyrant” instigated a violent attack. on democracy in 2021. “I offer a different path.”
