During an appearance on MSNBC's "The Weekend," the Republican mayor of Mesa, Arizona spoke about his recent endorsement of Vice President Kamala Harris and warned a return of Donald Trump to the Oval Office would be devastating to cities like his.Speaking with co-hosts Symone Sanders-Townsend and Mi...
honestly i don’t even know what the republican “ideal” is anymore, since it seems to me to be nothing more than “do whatever the 1% wants” for the last 20+ years
Some of the ideals they claimed to follow weren’t necessarily bad. Fiscal conservatism isn’t inherently a bad thing, the problem is that Republicans were highly selective about when they cared about it.
Fiscal conservatism should have never been conflated with severe austerity. Starve the government is a bad plan, thanks so much Grover Norquist 😤
Completely agree.
Balanced budget, working away the debt, making sure you don’t run a deficit? All totally sensible. But you do that by making the government more efficient and raising tax revenue, not slashing funding willy nilly