They can’t do any of that because it runs counter to their actual platform of giving tax breaks to the super rich while fucking over the poor.
So the only way to get the poor to support republicans is to engage in culture war bullshit.
If you look at any of the issues you raised, Republicans have been on the wrong side. They hate affordable healthcare, they want farm subsidies to only apply to the super rich mega farms, they want to punish opioid addicts while letting the Sackler family off scott free, and generally just want policy that will make life harder for everyone but themselves.
But they do want to hurt the people they’ve told their base to hate, even if those same policies hurt that base too.
They can’t do any of that because it runs counter to their actual platform of giving tax breaks to the super rich while fucking over the poor.
So the only way to get the poor to support republicans is to engage in culture war bullshit.
If you look at any of the issues you raised, Republicans have been on the wrong side. They hate affordable healthcare, they want farm subsidies to only apply to the super rich mega farms, they want to punish opioid addicts while letting the Sackler family off scott free, and generally just want policy that will make life harder for everyone but themselves.
But they do want to hurt the people they’ve told their base to hate, even if those same policies hurt that base too.