Sohrab Ahmari

Well, I did hear one thing that was new, which is in a very disturbing way, is the president has said, you know, it's not possible.

It's not possible for the U.S.

to pay for Medicaid, Medicare, daycare.

Quote, we're fighting wars.

Yeah, you're right.

That's where the working class comes in.

So that is a big departure from the Trump of 2016, from the Trump of 2020 and the Trump of 2024.

The whole thing with Trump was he repeatedly said, I am not going to touch your entitlements.

I am not going to touch your entitlements, including in the 2024 GOP, the Republican platform.

One of the planks is, you know, protect and preserve entitlements.

And that means Social Security, Medicare, Medicare.

And there are even White House statements you can find in which that says we are not going to touch Medicaid either.

Now, for the voters who are the marginal voters whom Trump brought into his coalition in 2016, then again in 2020 and even bigger in 2024.

I'm not talking about the mega hardcore.

The mega hardcore, if he converted to Shiite Islam tomorrow, they would continue to support him.

But I'm talking about those marginal voters, half of Hispanic men, a fifth of African-American men, young men who are anti-war.

For those people, what stood out about Trump was that unlike Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio, the kind of old Republican party of 2015, he would say, I'm gonna protect your entitlements and the foreign wars have been a disaster.

This is the complete reversal from that because he's saying Medicaid, Medicare, all of these things are under the chopping block potentially, and it should be a state problem.

Maybe we give them some discount, which is not how they're set up, certainly not for Medicare.

But what is not on the chopping block is the war I just launched in Iran, which at a minimum is going to cost $200 billion, which is what is being asked for from Congress.