The Republican Algorithm

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1. Pass tax cuts which lowers revenue.
2. Revenue shortfalls create massive deficits which necessitate austerity measures.
3. Austerity measures worsen the lives of every day people and increase their economic anxiety.
4. Pass de-regulation legislation which allow unscrupulous corporations to prey on people's economic anxiety.
5. Win re-election by:
A. Blaming the increased feeling of anxiety on the "other" (African Americans, feminism, LGBQT rights, immigrants, etc.)
B. Hyping issues that don't involve government actually helping people. See lax gun laws and abortion restrictions.
C. Pandering to so-called "Christian" values.
D. Start a war with some poor nation that's a supposed threat to the US.

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1. there's another step in there

-> let democrats win every once in a while so they can take the heat for raising taxes and refilling the federal coffers for later looting by republicans.