“We will take care of our people or I’m not signing it.” That’s Donald Trump last night in an interview with Tucker Carlson.
It certainly makes sense both politically and morally that President Trump night push or sign a bill that victimizes his own supporters as much as anyone. Every President recognizes and serves the needs of his core supporters, the bedrocks of his political coalition. But it is rare to see a President who so openly presses his goal of serving the needs of his own supporters either to the exclusion or indifference of everyone else.
This has come up already in frequent references to delivering bigly for his anchor states like Michigan, Wisconsin, Ohio and other similar Trump breakthrough states.
Again, I’m not being naive. Presidents need to deliver for supporters or they stop being Presidents. But we are not accustomed to a President who makes so little pretense of being President for all the country’s people, not just his political faction.
