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What are the long-term losses and when will they impact the party? If the answers are in the realm of "esoteric things like national debt" and "not for 10+ years" then it's pretty clear the strategy is working as intended - they get votes and policy decisions now in exchange for problems that get kicked down the road for someone else to deal with.

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Probably a democratic Administration who will then be scapegoated for "ballooning the deficit."

The democratic admin will be scapegoated for literally anything. As soon as the current admin is out the door the standards reset and it's back to outrage about "tan suits" and "saluting with coffee".

Probably because they will, with their own pet projects. The idea that there's a huge difference between the Republican and Democratic parties is a fantasy. Democrats are new wealth, profiteering from government inefficiency, while Republicans are old wealth who profiteer from the same things they always have. Some would say I'm cynical, but I believe I'm just old.

My sense is that republicans prefer to concentrate the pork to the ownership class, while the democrats want the waste distributed to a broader voting base.

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