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McConnell is correct that MAGA “will get over” the big beautiful bill, because you don’t know this! [1]
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Date: 2025-06-28
Mitch McConnell is urging Republicans to pass the Big Beautiful Bill because MAGA ‘will get over it.’ If they learn about our economic system as presented here, they won’t.
McConnell is correct that MAGA will get over it.
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Mitch McConnell’s private advice to Senate Republicans—“just pass the thing; they’ll get over it”—summarizes four decades of political cynicism: ram through another “Big Beautiful Bill” that shifts wealth upward, trust short memories to blunt the backlash, and rely on a media ecosystem that obscures how policy choices since 1980 have concentrated power and pain.
McConnell’s remark exposes a calculated bet that the MAGA base will accept deep Medicaid, SNAP, and consumer-protection cuts bundled with new tax breaks for the rich in the pending reconciliation package.
Supply-side doctrine has already pushed the top 1 percent’s wages up 182 percent since 1979, while the bottom 90 percent gained only 44 percent.
Fear-mongering about Social Security’s finances omits the most straightforward fix—scrapping the $176 k payroll cap—even though the trust fund can still pay 77 percent of benefits after 2033.
The pattern of disproportionate violence abroad continues: 46,707 Palestinians have died in Gaza since 2023, while the entire Iraq War killed 4,419 U.S. troops but hundreds of thousands of Iraqis.
Favorable tax treatment for capital gains and the ability of the ultra-rich to borrow against assets keep their effective rates below those of nurses and teachers, perpetuating the inequality that McConnell’s bill enlarges.
Viewed together, the bill, the rhetoric, and the history reveal a governing class that protects concentrated wealth by normalizing economic harm. A democratic response requires naming the scam, taxing all forms of income equally, lifting the Social Security cap, and replacing profiteering in healthcare with a publicly financed system that already works in every other wealthy democracy.
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