Republicans Are Planning an All-Out Assault on the Working Class If They Win Next Week
Draconian spending cuts, attacks on labor organizing, stoking war with China, and speeding up climate disaster — these are just some of the things Republicans are planning if they win big on Tuesday.
House minority leader Kevin McCarthy speaks during a news conference on the steps of the US Capitol on Republicans’ “Commitment to America” program on September 29, 2022. (Tom Williams / CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)
After a brief, optimistic window in the summertime, things are back to not looking great for the Democrats, just a few days out from the midterm elections. The polls have all gone in exactly the wrong direction for the party, and that’s with a significant non-response bias tilting against Republican voters. Meanwhile, the well-respected Cook Political Report has both blue districts that should be safe bets for the party and gubernatorial races moving in the Republicans’ favor.
All of it points to the result that was expected at the start of this year — namely a red victory that retakes the House and possibly even lops off the Democrats’ whisp of a Senate majority. Which raises the question: What exactly would a Republican Congress do?
An Attack on the Working Class . . .
Nothing good, is the short answer. Some of it is the standard stuff we’ve come to expect from the GOP, such as the debt limit brinkmanship Republicans have used for the last decade to extract concessions from Democrats. Once more, they’ll refuse to authorize lifting the debt ceiling to allow the United States to meet its debt obligations, putting Democrats in the position of either having to choose to agree to their demands for spending cuts, or letting the country default for the first time ever on its debt — something one Congressional study last year estimated could mean the loss of six million jobs and $15 trillion in household wealth.
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