Earlier this month, I predicted that Donald Trump would attack Ron DeSantis from the left on entitlements. Now, he’s already adopting the rhetoric of the far Left, accusing DeSantis of being a “wheelchair over the cliff kind of guy” like Paul Ryan.
The fact that Trump is so predictable does not make this any less pathetic. Put aside the fact that Medicare and Social Security are the two biggest drivers of the nation’s unsustainable debt. Trump isn’t just embracing the welfare state; he’s resorting to the same kind of distortions that the Democrats have been using against Republicans for decades. This runs the risk of making the argument a lot less appealing to Republican primary voters, who are conditioned to dismiss these sorts of exaggerations and scare tactics.