Will Bouwman wrote: ↑Fri Jul 04, 2025 8:23 am
Walker wrote: ↑Thu Jul 03, 2025 11:53 pmIf he is a great president it is not because I think that, but because of his actions, as they pertain to the above link.
How do you think his One Big Beautiful Bill will be judged?
History will have little interest in the explosion of national debt it causes to near Italian levels as ratio to GDP (which is problematic, but way below Japanese levels - literally about half). Conservatives who used to fret about debt all the time don't care any more either, history might notice that if they suddenly choose to care again when AOC is president.
History probably won't make much out of the millions of people who will no longer have healthcare coverage unless that causes a significant backlash such as causing the final collapse of America's ridiculous patchwork of nonsense healthcare provision and its replacement with a universal coverage system based on the German model (which is very dissimilar to the systems in UK or Canada). Otherwise Americans dying of preventable disease due to poverty while working three jobs is, sadly, unremarkable.
It will be judged negatively as the final decisive break from common sense efforts to resolve global warming without excessive temperature rises. We're all going to be judged quite harshly by future historians for our selfishness on that score, but early 21st C Republican party will be one of history's great villains for that, starting with W and ending with Trump's efforts to blame windmills for cancer and Make Coal Dirty Again.
But overall the vast budget expansion for ICE will be the long term headline. The conversion of that agency into an unaccountable white nationalist secret police force, and the devastating social consequences of that decision, will be Trump's primary legacy, and Walker's legacy will be his collusion in all this.