Opinion: Democrats have a big opening to hit GOP over Trump’s tax cut
how worried Republicans are about the seat held by GOP incumbent Steve Daines, who is facing a stiff challenge from Democratic Gov. Steve Bullock.
What’s interesting here is how Democrats are attacking Daines, and what that says about Trump and GOP vulnerability on the economy, now that we’re sliding into a depressionThe Dem-aligned Senate Majority PAC is up with its own ad attacking Daines that’s backed by a $700,000 buy, according to the group:Note the centrality of the 2017 Trump/GOP corporate tax cut, which lavished enormous benefits on the wealthiest earnerson wages or growth.
Those are juxtaposed with both Daines’s support for the corporate tax giveaway and Republican efforts to limit the size and scope of various economic rescue programs Democrats have pushed, such as paid sick leave and expanded unemployment assistance.As it is, the Great and Glorious Trump Tax Cut of 2017 was already a big GOP vulnerability.
All of this points to an important way in which the coronavirus — and the resulting economic calamity — completely upended the carefully laid plans of Trump and Republicans.the sham “economic populism” he ran on in 2016 as he fully embraced conventional GOP plutocracy.
Indeed, Trump’s corporate tax cut legacy could dovetail with the economic collapse in a way no one could have anticipated. Right now, Democrats are seizing on the collapse to make the case for a
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