MacDonald: The $5K Bait

Watching the left lose its hive mind over Trump’s $5000 midterm convention “election bribe” is not just predictable but hilarious.

We have no idea what he means, where it might come from, how it might manifest, or whether he’s serious. A check, a tax rebate or credit, an in-pocket real-world benefit courtesy of the invisible hand. It hardly matters. In existential terms, you will always find more of your money in your pocket with Republican majorities at any level of government than with Democrat, but the Trump thing sounds like it will be someone else’s.

Isn’t that the point?

My take on it when I saw it was that he’s doing a parody of the Democrats — who offer free healthcare, free housing, no more bills (the DSA is literally promising that), welfare for everybody. All they do is make bullshit promises of free swag for the folks. So, if I’m Trump, and I think it’s a civilizational mission to keep a gaggle of communists without meaningful work on their resumes from getting power on Capitol Hill and unleashing a level of government dysfunction and foreign intrigue on Washington that might actually be unprecedented, then yeah — I’m going to do and say whatever the hell I need to in order to win.

The only promise a government can make that doesn’t cost someone else some of their property is a tax cut. Everything else costs someone something, so the lesson is that less government will always save you money. The corollary to which is that Democrats always want more money; ergo, less for you, but they hide it behind a lie. Don’t worry, someone else will pay, and we hope you are not curious enough and are greedy enough not to think it through.

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