Source: Semafor
by David Weigel
“The real Democratic conversation about a post-Trump agenda won’t get underway until 2027, when their presidential candidates stop being so coy about what brought them to Charleston and Nashua. But Republicans have stopped fearing ‘the ratchet effect,’ the theory that government programs never contract once expanded.” (07/18/25)
https://www.semafor.com/article/07/18/2025/republicans-have-stopped-fearing-the-ratchet-effect