Left-wingers wryly note that fiscal conservatives tend to claim tax cuts are always the right answer; if the economy is booming, they say rates must come down because revenues are gushing unnecessarily fast into the Treasury, but in recession, tax-cutters say slashing rates will get the economy moving again.
There is much truth in this, so touché.
But the Left is just as inclined as the Right to treat triumph and disaster just the same. Its answer in all circumstances is to move faster and further leftward.
Thus, the Progressive Change Campaign Committee blamed defeat in Virginia on the failure to pass President Joe Biden’s multitrillion-dollar welfare bill. “More Virginians would have voted Democratic,” the progressives claimed, “if they had child care and Democrats had accomplished what we promised for years.” In a similar but contradictory way, Democratic pollster Cornell Belcher argued that voters weren’t interested in roads and bridges but wanted more “justice and racial equality.”
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